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EmacsConf 2021: How Emacs made me appreciate software freedom
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This is a republication of my presentation at EmacsConf 2021. I am posting it on my own channel for archiving purposes. Original: https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/freedom/ . The video was recorded on November 5, 2021. What follows is the text of the presentation in Org notation. Note that I had mistakenly said “consubstantive” instead of “consubstantial” but only realised it after I concluded the recording… This is rectified in the text: #+TITLE: EmacsConf 2021: How Emacs made me appreciate software freedom #+AUTHOR: Protesilaos Stavrou (https://protesilaos.com) #+DATE: 2021-11-27 * About me and this talk Hello EmacsConf! My name is Protesilaos, also known as "Prot". I am joining you from the mountains of Cyprus. Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. My presentation focuses on the intersection between software freedom and what we find in the Emacs milieu. Here "the Emacs milieu" encompasses two magnitudes: (i) the program we use and (ii) the diverse, global community of people that has grown organically around it. I will talk to you about how Emacs made me appreciate software freedom and helped me exercise it to its full potential. Personal anecdotes are not the mai…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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