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We are not against the Open Source movement, but we don't want to be lumped in with them. We acknowledge that they have contributed to our community, but we created this community, and we want people to know this.

— Richard Stallman Why "Free Software" is better than "Open Source (1998)

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C++ is a badly designed and ugly language. It would be a shame to use it in Emacs.

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