If we're going to stand on principle, we have to admit vi was always a better concept than emacs, and must doubt the intelligence or motives of anyone who would divert attention from vi. emacs is just a big fork that wasted a lot of effort that could have gone into displacing Word! Who knows where we would be without these splitters?

Think about it. Do we _know_ that RMS is _not_ a Bill Gates plant, inserted to dilute the momentum generated by Bill Joy? Hmmm? Improbable, yes, but not impossible.

I just don't see how we can trust anything RMS has to say on anything.