Re: [emacs-tangents] [External] : Emacs website, Lisp, and other

[Drew Adams]

> > > So the Emacs website and documentation should not sell elisp short.
> >
> > "marketing", "marketing", "marketing",
> > "marketing", "marketing", "marketing".
> >
> > FWIW, a description, accurate or inaccurate, isn't
> > necessarily marketing.  We're not selling Emacs or
> > Elisp.  There's no market involved.

GNU's not selling Emacs or Elisp.  They're not being
produced for exchange/sale by GNU.  It's not commodity
production.

(But you can still buy a printed manual from GNU, I assume.)

> Emacs is product, and can be well sold, it is power text editor, with
> too many features and extensibility. Perfect software product. Manage
> anything, compan, clinic, hospital, memberships, calculations,
> spreadsheets, plethora of features.
> 
> It is sellable. License allows it. Just sell.

It's not developed for sale by GNU; that's the point.
That's not the purpose/motivation behind its production.

You can develop your own enhancements for it with an
eye to selling them, i.e., with that as their purpose.
But the motivation behind the development of GNU Emacs
isn't to sell it.  It has great use value and zero
exchange value - like the air we breathe.