It doesn’t even take special talents to do!
Context: tess.oconnor.cx/2005/04/rms
alsaaas, 
One of the rare absolute Ws for RMS
GreenMario, Akshully it’s GNU/Emacs.
homo_ignotus, No, it’s GNU Emacs.
milicent_bystandr,
mkwt, Was that one of the ones from the Megan era?
corrupts_absolutely, i mean the mailing lists got it right, children are temporary emacs is forever
SubArcticTundra, 
I’m sure Emacs can reproduce.
kautau, Yeah there’s an elisp file for that somewhere
SubArcticTundra, (edited ) Wait, I just realized that that exists. It’s called a quine. I trust that the Founding Fathers of Emacs were genius enough to make it a quine.
swab148, 
That’s why they’re the Founding Fathers
SubArcticTundra, Credited with writing the manuscripts of the GNU GPL, in its original, unamended form
SexualPolytope, 
The Founding Daddies, if you will.
Kusimulkku, It doesn’t take special talents to reproduce—even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of.
It helps more people, too.
LMAO
seitanic, 
Where’s the lie
Kusimulkku, It’s just a really weird thing to say
Kiernian, corwin does both…
smeg, I assumed this meant reproducing the same functionality in a new editor instead of contributing to Emacs, the reality is so much better
mexicancartel, Sorry you had to go through having a baby…
Andrew15_5, 
In order to contribute a fix, you have to reproduce a bug.
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