Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Richard Stallman]

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  > This said, it is a slippery slope and given the general current context
  > where we move every time more in the direction of relying on external
  > servers that are not under the control of the user, I do think we should
  > be careful not to encourage the use of such remote servers.

That's exactly the cconcern I have.

I am not opposed to supporting free software that can look up words in
remote dictionaries.  When you want to do that, we should offer you
free software for that -- and we do.

But we need to be careful about which direction we lead most users to
go.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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