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To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>, Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

On 1/28/19 11:42 PM, Tim Cross wrote:
> Of course, this says nothing about the ethical position associated with re-implementing functionality from a GPL'd sysem under a non-free license. We can hope people do the right thing, but have no control to enforce it. I also doubt it will cause any fracture in the org user community - the bottom line is most of use came to org because of Emacs. These other systems don't have Emacs and therefore are really only a pale imitation.

I'm one of those who came to Emacs because of Org. I read an article in some magazine (Linux Journal?) about Org and knew I had to try it out. Once I was into using Org, Emacs took over more and more of my computing life. People who use a non-free semi-implementation of Org may not even realize Emacs is the software that made Org possible and that Emacs is so great, and I think that is sad.

Scott