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How is it a walled garden if it's free, open-source software?

• a-nikolaev 6y ago
  Emacs is its own ecosystem, you either buy it all, and grow to use it more and more, or don't get to use it all. So in a way it separates itself from the rest of Unix ecosystem.
  • thotsBgone 6y ago
    Only because much of what emacs does is cumbersome or impossible as regular software.
    • a-nikolaev 6y ago
      a lock-in is a lock-in, even if with free software, it incurs certain costs on you, even if it provides convenience.