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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247944 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:04:13 -0700 >> From: Ahmed Khanzada >> Cc: Po Lu , >> S=C3=A9bastien Gendre , >> =EC=A1=B0=EC=84=B1=EB=B9=88 , >> Emacs developers >>=20 >> Let's say tomorrow Emacs is like VS Code running Emacs Lisp in a Guile >> VM. Is the idea that if we compete in the same modes as the modernist >> editors, we can steal enough people from them that we will advance the >> cause of free software? > > More users generally means more contributors, more future developers, > and better Emacs. And yes, it advances the cause of Free Software, > like any other free package that attracts users. Definitely! Users are important. There is an interesting interviw/article in Linux Format from January this year with Ton Roosendaal, the creator of 3D modelling/animation package Blender. Blender went form relatively non-popular 3D application on the verge of extinction to become a multimillion industry accepted application. He touches on tradeoffs Blender made between "old wyas" and more accepted "modern standards" and importance to appeal to "masses". In sense it touches on similar questions as Emacs is faced with, so it might be an interesting read. Just as a side note ...=20