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Moral lessons from free software and GNU Emacs
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In this video blog I talk about my background with computers. This experience helped me learn five important lessons that apply to life in general and free software in particular, especially GNU Emacs. Below you can find the text of the presentation in org-mode notation (this is plain text, in case you do not know). I just noticed a few typos and an error in the “forgo […] a loss” statements, but I hope you get what I wanted to say (“to accept a loss…”). #+TITLE: Vlog: Moral lessons from switching to Emacs #+AUTHOR: Protesilaos Stavrou (https://protesilaos.com/) In this video blog I want to share with you a topic that comes up from time to time in my private email exchanges. And that is my background in computers and, basically, how I became an Emacs user. I want to share with you my story, though I also wish to draw some lessons from it and generalise them into insights that might be useful for other people. I think that as with life in general, our experience with computers goes through various phases in which we become better at adapting to or coping with evolving states of affairs, once we gain some familiarity with the case-specific surroundings or parameters. Each person is d…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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