From: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:37:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlisj3fk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b79371120812180830x4150cad1j36e80609b979b2e5@mail.gmail.com
A tool with a shrinking user base also has a shrinking pool of potential
developers that will continue to make it better. Fewer developers to
make it better will make it less competitive with other tools causing it to
lose more users. And so on. There are also fewer people to file
bug reports and help other users with problems.
I'm a craftsman by trade and um---the tool thing jumped out at me
here---I gotta tell ya, people that use a tool that use developed, not a
tool that someone just picked up ... and changed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 2:37 UTC|newest]
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2008-12-02 2:53 is there summary of template systems for emacs? Xah Lee
2008-12-02 4:28 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-03 0:34 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-07 19:14 ` Peter Milliken
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2008-12-14 21:37 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-15 18:24 ` Distributed Maintenance for Emacs (was: is there summary of template systems for emacs?) Leo
2008-12-15 18:45 ` Distributed Maintenance for Emacs Paul R
2008-12-15 18:48 ` is there summary of template systems for emacs? Peter Milliken
2008-12-15 20:21 ` Peter Milliken
[not found] ` <mailman.2806.1229365513.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-15 19:31 ` Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Teemu Likonen
2008-12-15 20:42 ` Peter Milliken
2008-12-15 21:09 ` Jonathan Groll
2008-12-15 21:37 ` Emacs's popularity Teemu Likonen
2008-12-15 21:41 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2823.1229377291.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-15 22:28 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-15 22:59 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2834.1229381955.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-15 23:40 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 0:53 ` Lennart Borgman
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2008-12-16 1:01 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 8:37 ` Lennart Borgman
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2008-12-16 10:41 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 2:37 ` Charles philip Chan
2008-12-16 10:09 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 11:20 ` Richard Riley
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2008-12-16 10:17 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 11:34 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 11:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2008-12-16 12:36 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 12:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.2855.1229431948.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 13:03 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 14:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.2858.1229436444.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 15:09 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 15:50 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 17:43 ` Andrea Vettorello
2008-12-16 16:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-16 16:21 ` Paul R
[not found] ` <mailman.2867.1229443519.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 17:15 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-17 1:35 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 16:56 ` Andreas Politz
2008-12-17 1:34 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-17 7:43 ` Tim X
2008-12-17 14:17 ` B Smith-Mannschott
2008-12-15 23:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
[not found] ` <mailman.2835.1229385349.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:21 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 12:35 ` William Case
2008-12-15 22:03 ` Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Drew Adams
2008-12-15 22:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-15 22:19 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-15 22:22 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2830.1229379766.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:33 ` Emacs's popularity Tim X
2008-12-16 13:18 ` Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Jonathan Groll
2008-12-16 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-19 2:10 ` Sean Sieger
2008-12-18 16:30 ` David L
2008-12-18 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-19 16:53 ` David L
2008-12-19 17:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-19 2:37 ` Sean Sieger [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2825.1229378627.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:22 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 11:56 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-15 22:49 ` Emacs's popularity Teemu Likonen
2008-12-16 2:10 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-12-15 21:28 ` Distributed Maintenance for Emacs (was: is there summary of template systems for emacs?) Richard Riley
2008-12-15 19:46 ` is there summary of template systems for emacs? Drew Adams
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