Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I think we should let the user decide whether such risks are relevant
  > in each and every case, and whether these risks, if they exist, are
  > worth taking.

I agree.  I am not saying users should not be able to talk with servers
for dictionary lookup.  I am discussing a different question;
whether we should designate "use an internet server" as the default
way to do a job for which there is a natural local method.
I say we must never do that, because using the internet should
always be something one makes a special decision to do.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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