Another difference between emacs and Office 365. The code and functionality of both are also sustained by an ecosystem. For Office 365 that ecosystem is by and

Another difference between emacs and Office 365. The code and functionality of both are also sustained by an ecosystem. For Office 365 that ecosystem is by and large constituted by the paid labour of workers employed by Microsoft, together with a minor subset of plugin contributors for certain applications. For Emacs, the ecosystem includes everyone who adopts the use of emacs. In other words, to Microsoft's system you are a customer. Microsoft may choose to adapt their system to your use case if you are lucky enough to represent a big enough user or use case. To emacs you are part of the very ecology which sustains the whole system. That's where the sense of empowerment and 'freedom' (I hate the term) comes from.