Many popular packages already require recent versions of Emacs, so this
sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Upgrading Emacs is trivial on all platforms and we need to drive forward
progress. If someone doesn't want to update Emacs they'll probably be fine
with
using an older version of org as well.

On 16 August 2015 at 02:01, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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> Emacs 23 was current just a few years ago.  Please don't rush to
> desupport it.  It is ok of the Org mode included in the current Emacs
> does not work in any other version, but when you distribute something
> separately, you should respect people that don't update often.
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