From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files) Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:23:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <0E591E8B-FD55-4829-8421-6F2C02AFD20C@mit.edu> <83eejenvy2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22350"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 11:24:24 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6kJ-0005hW-Qv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:24:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35612 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6kI-0001eZ-QD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6jN-0000pi-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:23:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6jL-0000OC-KG; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:23:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6jJ-0000qH-1T; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:23:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Fri, 25 Dec 2020 17:30:29 +0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:261815 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > As a single data point, I have not seen a Word document passed in a > mail attachment in a long time. Good riddance, but Most collaboration is now happening in > Google Documents (and Sheets), Dropbox Paper, and Notion. Google Docs is also bad -- because you have to run nonfree software to talk to it, and you have to identify yourself and sign an unjust contract ot be allowed to use it. I never heard of the other three; are they any less bad? It would be a good thing to write an Emacs interface that can talk to Google Docs; but if it requires a Google account, I'd still say no. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)