From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: ndame <ndame@protonmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Free Software (was: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers)
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 17:16:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4ksynir8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR06MB6420330C3BEA152FD05D336D96A80@AM0PR06MB6420.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (Arthur Miller's message of "Sat, 02 May 2020 20:55:33 +0200")
>>> I don't know, but it
>>> seems like both Vi(m) & Emacs have got a revival lately.
>> That's true for FOSS editors in general, though. We didn't have so many good
>> options before.
> Indeed, seems as a general trend, we have never had so much FOSS
> software in general, not just editos, but everything, from AI research
> to Game Engines, 3D Editors, compilers, libraries, you name it. Seems
> like world has realized power of open source, which is great.
Sadly, I believe this only applies to a particular subset of the uses
of computers. Maybe we could describe it as the subset that applies to
desktop computers. In the tablet/phone world, Free Software is
not nearly as prevalent (instead, in that sphere, the most prevalent is
freeware which is a name that mostly disappeared, replaced by the name
"free software").
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-02 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-27 17:50 Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers ndame
2020-04-27 18:07 ` Arthur Miller
2020-04-28 0:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-30 2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-30 5:58 ` ndame
2020-05-02 2:21 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-02 15:52 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-02 15:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 17:00 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-02 18:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 18:55 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-02 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-05-02 21:46 ` [OFFTOPIC] Free Software Arthur Miller
2020-05-03 23:27 ` [OFFTOPIC] Free Software (was: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers) chad
2020-05-04 3:05 ` Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers Richard Stallman
2020-05-05 14:08 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-06 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-06 18:14 ` Nikita Mogilevsky
2020-05-07 2:48 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-02 16:25 ` ndame
2020-05-02 19:04 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-02 19:36 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-02 20:05 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-02 21:16 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-02 22:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-05 13:58 ` Arthur Miller
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