Re: Copyleft vs Public Domain

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From: John W. Eaton
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:07

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In article <1993Jan11.032430.19184@husc3.harvard.edu>
zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

> I shan't presume to speak for you or your programs, but for anyone
> *but* a skilled programmer, Emacs is *far* inferior to any generic
> (WYSIWYG, graphical) word processor.

Thanks for speaking for everyone else *but* skilled programmers though!

I know several people who are definitely not skilled programmers but
who still find Emacs to be far *superior* to MS Word (for example).

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