Use Emacs as the IDE for Wolfram Mathematica.

[Christopher Dimech]

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Christopher Dimech
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> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2021 at 1:11 AM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: moasenwood@zoho.eu, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Use Emacs as the IDE for Wolfram Mathematica.
>
> * Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2021-05-23 15:58]:
> 
> > Rather one should realise that the way forward is in not using
> > Wolfram Mathematica in the first place.
> 
> From the IDE viewpoint combined with licensing, I don't think there is
> a problem for Emacs to be IDE to proprietary languages, though in GNU
> people don't develop such.
> 
> If IDE is just executing the proprietary program, than IDE package
> itself is not in conflict neither with GPL3+ Emacs nor with
> proprietary license.

Legally, there are no problems for Emacs to be used as an IDE to proprietary 
languages.
But their decision to make and use proprietary software is a decision to stay 
out of our
community.  Being in our community means joining in cooperation with us; we 
cannot “bring
them into our community” if they don't want to join.

Proprietary software does not contribute to our community, but its users and 
developers
often want handouts from us.
 
> -- 
> Jean
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