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Wow, send a bill to the company and ask them to renew their site license for the emacs config. Or opensource what you can of it and remove the competitive advan

Wow, send a bill to the company and ask them to renew their site license for the emacs config. Or opensource what you can of it and remove the competitive advantage they have.

neilv 6y ago
As much as I'm a fan of Emacs, I don't think a .emacs file had much to do with that startup's success. He just wanted to see the UX and features that were possible for a particular purpose, for ideas and competitive analysis. But I did opensource a minority of the bits. :) https://www.neilvandyke.org/emacs/ https://www.neilvandyke.org/emacs/
- justinhj 6y ago
  Not unless the startup was Amazon, which used emacs as an application platform for all their customer support :)
  - neilv 6y ago
    Totally believeable. I had one research prototype that invoked an Emacs process for every Web CGI request. To get that kind of R&D rapid development productivity, I then had to start building out libraries for Scheme. :)
jsilence 6y ago
That one day when my emacs config is gonna give anyone a competitive advantage, Sasquatch is gonna get caught on camera grooming a unicorn.
- oblio 6y ago
  Well, it could be a competitive advantage for your own company, if you share it with competitors. We all know that configurable editors are a huge time sink ;-)