Re: Emacs design and architecture

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:
  > >> So has nobody yet written a front-end for Emacs that runs in a web
  > >> browser?

In a strategic moral sense that would be a bad direction to go.  Most
users use a nonfree web browser, or a mostly free but nasty browser
such as Chromium.  The ones that are free are noncopylefted.  To
change Emacs into something people usually run under a browser would
be an enormous change for the worse in regard to giving users freedom.

The level of convenience is not th e most important one.  We must
judge significant design issues in terms of these questions: advancing
the territory of free software, of copyleft, and of separation from
unjust software.


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