Re: Emacs ffi

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Emacs is not the only free software out there, how does
everyone else do this?

In Debian we opt-in with non-free in /etc/apt/sources.list
e.g. with a line like this:

  deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Using this command, you can see that they give the user access
to software repositories of a size that is mindboggling.

Do they have another policy than Emacs?

Also, are there no free or FOSS libraries we can start with,
and possibly upgrade later if the others really are superior?

IME when people say the proprietary version is much better,
like for CAD and such specific applications, where the
free/FOSS world is supposedly behind - I dont know who can
tell, but what we have is good enough.

Is the situation not the same for libraries?

Here is the shell command. Yes

$ apt-cache pkgnames | wc -l
64 986

- that is amazing digit to behold.

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