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RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the evangelism-is-time-consuming dept.

sigzero writes "Short but sweet: RMS is stepping down as Emacs Maintainer: 'From: Richard Stallman, Subject: Re: Looking for a new Emacs maintainer or team, Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:57:22 -0500 Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them."

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  1. Stallman is still around? by djh101010 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    RMS, like EMACS, has decayed to irrelevance long ago. Guy ran out of interesting and useful things to say a decade ago or more. He's not running the all-singing-all-dancing app which used to be a text editor project any more? I'm having a hard time trying to care.

    1. Re:Stallman is still around? by gazbo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      I agree. He is roughly as historically important as the entire Police Academy series.

  2. Re:Wow by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Castro has been a murderous dictator for decades, and it's rather unfortunate that you'd choose to compare Stallman to him.

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  3. stepped down as Emacs maintainer but... by silpol · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... what is his further plan on public entertainment? I mean, I've been once on his lecture dedicated to free software, GNU and all-all-all. He seemed to be more entertaining than clowns or orthodoxy's priests, wonder he must have now more time to do that public entertainment on wider and deeper scale...

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