[smartmic]

Is it really too much to ask from such a project to learn about its initiators and purpose in a first place directly from the site itself?

[tephra]

Well there was a lot of talk about this on the mailing list with a lot of core devs opposed to the idea.

[okprod]

I'm not on the mailing list / saw the survey first on HN. At first glance thought it was marketing spam or something.

[lottin]

Why would a spammer be interested in hearing opinions about Emacs?

[okprod]

Idk, maybe it's Google obtaining market data in order to launch a cloud-based Gemacs

[szszrk]

So it clearly is a survey for people on the mailing list and others would just spoil the numbers :)

[guenthert]

So they made it as shoddy looking as possible to be able to say later, well we did have a survey, but few participated?

[reeealloc]

No, it's not.