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| From: | Sean Sieger |
| Subject: | Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) |
| Date: | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:37:19 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
A tool with a shrinking user base also has a shrinking pool of potential
developers that will continue to make it better. Fewer developers to
make it better will make it less competitive with other tools causing it to
lose more users. And so on. There are also fewer people to file
bug reports and help other users with problems.
I'm a craftsman by trade and um---the tool thing jumped out at me
here---I gotta tell ya, people that use a tool that use developed, not a
tool that someone just picked up ... and changed.
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