The original Unix philosophy was that each program should "do one thing and do it well," and that has carried over into GNU. The reason Emacs doesn't follow this dictum is that it was not originally written on or for Unix. Its first release was in 1976 on an internally-developed OS at MIT. Steele and Stallman's Emacs wouldn't even be ported to Unix until 1984, and even then, it was enough of a resource hog that using it earned you an angry call from the sysadmins. Gosling's Emacs, which was much more lightweight, came out in 1981 (see also: MINCE and JOVE).

By the time of the Unix port (and Stallman's inauguration of the GNU project), it would not have been useful to try to reshape Emacs to fit Unix's long-pipes-of-simple-things model.

Even legitimate clones of products have to be bug-compatible, because in any sufficiently large installed base, there's going to be some use that (usually inadvertently) depends on a bug being there.

Related: When I worked at HP, every now and then a customer would get tripped up by upgrading to a new CPU that had a bugfix that broke their code. All we could do was tell them to pay more attention to the release notes. The same thing happened with software upgrades, but it was much easier for customers to find code that depended on a software bug than, say, a microcode bug.

They're not paying the cost of delivery of their packages. Instead, they're passing the cost onto taxpayers. How does that make you feel? Especially considering how these rural uneducated people vote?

Haven't seen a true slashdotting in years! Also a good refutation of all the people here who think this is stupid and nobody would want it.

Nope! That is fake news. The last time I heard this urban legend, it was George W. Bush Senior. If only Slashdot had X's Community Notes feature. That is rapidly turning into our best weapon against lying journalists.

I'm glad someone showed up to put Americans in their place! Goodness knows we almost had an outbreak of American pride there until you put a stop to it.

That's what's called a parasocial relationship, and it's not healthy. Para means half, and the relationship is one way only. People imagine that they are having relationships, but they aren't. That's why the higher tiers of Patreon are so popular among certain people. They get a response back! $500 a month for a friend! Shut up and take my money!

the "place to have the authentic conversations weâ(TM)ve always wanted to have."

Just curious: what is their policy on censorship? Something tells me they are not in favor of having any kind of authentic conversations unless they politically approve of the content.

Whoever came up with this stunt deserves a raise. It worked wonderfully well. It even made Slashdot! Despite having nothing to do with technology. The summary mentions three of their products by name!

Solidworks and other CPU-hungry modeling and simulation software.

How is it that you people were totally OK with "Cuties" but the moment an actual anti child trafficking movie came out you reacted to it like a vampire to sunlight and called it dangerous right wing propaganda? And then said it was very rare, it wasn't an issue, despite the fact that the last time I was in an airport there were signs all over the place telling you to report child traffickers immediately?

Are you implying there is a genetic basis to intelligence? This is false and major point in alt-right behavior.

The US has bigger fish to fry than supplying its domestic population with oil. The US must dominate the Middle East because that's where the world's oil comes from. The US is responsible for the entire world's energy supply, not just for its own. This means wars, but fortunately the US has a large military and government officials in DC who are willing to make the hard decisions. Senator Lindsay Graham has just called for war with Iran and once that's been cleaned up, the Middle East will be even more dominated by the US (and Israel of course). We're in a good position here.

I've tried apkpure and similar sites. They suck. The selection is poor, many apps aren't on there, and it's just useless. Believe me, I tried.

Gosh, federal law prevents them from being disgusting sexist bigots? What a tragedy. I feel for these poor oppressed souls.