Re: could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)?

[Andy Moreton]

On Sun 21 Nov 2021, dick wrote:

> PL>    We support GNU Emacs on proprietary operating systems because we hope
> PL> this taste of freedom will inspire users to escape from them.
>
> Inertia is real, and institutions will always opt for circuitous rhetoric over
> policy reversal to avoid retcon'ing a longstanding inconsistency.  GNU happens
> to be rather expert at this kind of casuistry.

Please drop the rude tone. It does not advance your arguments.

> Without data, I agree with OP that if I were a Windows user, I imagine myself
> more inclined to stick with Windows if GNU offered a fully functioning emacs
> there (fortunately for GNU, it doesn't).

Wrong. Emacs works fine on Windows, and has for decades.

    AndyM