Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-nyu-2001-transcript--b65dcb-When I first released GNU Emac/en

When I first released GNU Emacs &mdash; the first piece of the GNU system that people actually wanted to use &mdash; and when it started having users, after a while, I got a message saying, &ldquo;I think I saw a bug in the source code, and here's a fix.&rdquo; And I got another message, &ldquo;Here's code to add a new feature.&rdquo; And another bug fix. And another new feature. And another, and another, and another, until they were pouring in on me so fast that just making use of all this help I was getting was a big job. Microsoft doesn't have this problem. [Laughter]