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Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures
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    The crucial point IMO is letting go of the "we are best" attitude. 

We don't claim to be "best" in a technical sense, because that is a
side issue anyway.  What we claim to be is _ethical_, in contrast to
the evil of proprietary software.