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Subject: Re: Question of curiosity: who is still
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 11:57:00 EDT
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> Is anyone still shelling out real $$$ to buy either Unipress' or CCA's
> emacs programs?  If so, why?
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There are several reasons for going with the commercial versions:
Support (not every site has hordes of hackers free to hunt for
problems and answer questions), features (there are still
some things that they can do that GNU can't -- like pop-up
windows), and libraries (some of the GNU packages are not as
capable as the corresponding Gosling packages -- mail and
c-mode come to mind).  Support is by far the most powerful
of those, especially to non-techie sites; the commercial
Emacses have phone numbers you can call for help.

Having said which, let me add that most Emacs users here have
switched to GNU for most purposes (I still read mail in Gosling
and I still do new code creation in Gosling).

-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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