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Believing that people will stop using macOs just because Emacs stops working nicely is probably the most ridiculous thing I have read this week. It shows a comp
by dathinab 4y ago
Believing that people will stop using macOs just because Emacs stops working nicely is probably the most ridiculous thing I have read this week. It shows a complete non-understanding about how most users, including developers, use software. If I would guess it has two possible (and possible overlapping) outcomes:
- a mac fork which will maintain this functionality, and probably adds other mac specific functionality over time, basically making the situation worse
- the user will decide it's time to move away from Emacs. Hypothetical quote: "I mean <modern GUI editor> doesn't look that bad and it's 2022 the area of stateless cloud has replaced dedicated servers, so why care for TUI interfaces anymore." So also a loss of free software.
Which is what is at the core of the recent complains about the FSF I think. It looks like they don't fight a ware for a better future anymore but a war for fanatically enforcing ideology even if it hurts their original goals in the bigger picture.