Imagine having your project held hostage by RMS's technical direction circa 1993. "RMS is this great programmer. He's got GCC. He's got Emacs. He's got the MacArthur. He's got this luxurious pad on the fourth floor of posh NE43. I go to work for him, hoping some of that will rub off. It turns out that the single most common theme in his thought is, "That's too much work." "That's going to take too long." "Don't bother.""
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@pervognsen Reminds me of sometimes wondering wtf happened between gnu and sun, as I feel like there's also been at least one drama there.
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I'm surprised how civil that discussion was by today's standards
Anyway, jwz's page on the XEmacs schism is a classic: https://web.archive.org/web/20130227062803/http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html. It's possible newer Emacs users might not know this was a long-running rift in the community.
the Lemacs/FSFmacs schism