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
Kiernian, corwin does both…
milicent_bystandr,
mkwt, Was that one of the ones from the Megan era?
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…
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
Andrew15_5, 
In order to contribute a fix, you have to reproduce a bug.
GreenMario, Akshully it’s GNU/Emacs.
homo_ignotus, No, it’s GNU Emacs.
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.
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