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Important context: Stallman's setup and his work process don't involve being online very often. He thinks and writes emails: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?
by dpritchett 16y ago
Important context: Stallman's setup and his work process don't involve being online very often. He thinks and writes emails: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071558 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071558
"I spend most of my time using Emacs. I run it on a text console, so that I don't have to worry about accidentally touching the mouse-pad and moving the pointer, which would be a nuisance. I read and send mail with Emacs (mail is what I do most of the time).
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Most of the time I do not have an Internet connection. Once or twice or maybe three times a day I connect and transfer mail in and out. Before sending mail, I always review and revise the outgoing messages. That gives me a chance to catch mistakes and faux pas."
- zmitri 16y agoI knew he was rarely on the web, and even when he is, he doesn't access it directly. Submitted because I thought the mailing list response was, well, funny.
- city41 16y agoI'm not sure if "funny" is really what HN is going for. This feels more appropriate on Reddit. But I digress.
- dmlorenzetti 16y agoOK, but what does that have to do with whether he maintains his own website? He could code the site himself, if he wanted to, using Emacs, and without an internet connection most of the time. In fact I think the context works the other way around. RMS maintains a complicated personal website, and apparently does it mainly by writing emails. That, with no other information, is something of a feat. The explanatory context is that he has a bunch of volunteers who mark up what he writes, and put it on the web for him.