Vim's Bram Moolenaar On Open Source And Vim 6.0

vimbigot writes "A nice summary of where Vim 6.0 has come from, with some insights into Bram Moolenaar's thoughts on Open Source, Charityware and large cooperative software projects. (a bit of irony in the `powered by emacs logo at the bottom !')"

Re:I'm curious

[Anonymous Coward]

i know more than these few things.... but hey. god gave me a brain... and i use it.

Re:Not Irony

[RatFink100]

I blame Alanis Morrisette.

I, too, am curious

[dimator]

You call vim this horrid piece of software but earlier you said It took me several years to actually learn to use Vi(m).

A) Do you always spend "years" learning software you don't like?

B) Does your "learning" curve always hit a brick wall at the very first few commands that anyone else acquires in minutes?

Wow

[dimator]

Bram Moolenaar studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Delft and graduated in 1985 on a multi-processor Unix architecture.

Could the school not afford a proper stage for the ceremony?

Re:Not Irony

[Zocalo]

Do people even know what irony is nowadays?

I do. It means "Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles", but I think the definintion people need to understand is "Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs", which is actually what is happening, isn't it? I for one would have expected to see a "Powered by VIM" button or whatever it says rather than an emacs logo.

Both the above definitions are cut and pasted from dictionary.com [dictionary.com] before you follow up.

Re:ViM Author has seen the light

[Dionysus]

What the point in having a cake if you can't eat it too?

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

REJOICE! A funny comment that is, in fact, funny! I do not recall the last time this has happened on Slashdot.