Will this be software the author will ever have to pass on? I'd guess probably not, considering it's software for his small bakery. It's software directly tied

Will this be software the author will ever have to pass on? I'd guess probably not, considering it's software for his small bakery. It's software directly tied to his identity - he's the sole consumers. That's exactly the kind of software emacs is great for, and precisely the kind of software "hacker" types use. He's not going to sell this as a "bakery management system" and become a software company, he's just going to bake bread. If he needs to share the _information_, then he can just print reports, that's ostensibly what the system is _for_.