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> Has he written any code lately?

Why would that even matter? I find this attitude very puzzling and extremely worrying.

Of all the arbitrary metrics to decide whether to listen to and consider somebody's position "lines of code written" seems like an exceptionally poor choice.

I find your comment to be a good example of what is wrong in circles that like to consider themselves part of hacker culture.



Well if he's not contributing to the project in any meaningful way, why is his opinion valued?

It's not a matter of lines of code, but of contribution at all.

What does RMS enable the emacs project to do that they couldn't do without him?

What does he bring to the table?

I'm not being rhetorical, I mean it: why do people care what he thinks?




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