[munchor]

It's also closed source, meaning we can't fix something if we want to. We can't see what's going on back there. When it comes to a tool that I use every day with personal data, I really want it to be open source.

My browser and my text editor definitely need to be open source. Additionally, Emacs is really amazing, and like many others, I've been building this init.el for years (in my case months), meaning Emacs and I are really made for each other right now.

[wccrawford]

I actually did use the fact that MacVim is open source to fix a bug one day. Well, actually, someone else had already figured it out and provided a patch, but it wasn't in the main line yet and I really, really needed it that day. But I was already on the track to fixing it when I found someone else's patch.