> And that was one of the sillier holy wars, since text editors have near-zero network effects and it's trivial for distros to ship both.
Text editors like vi may have near-zero network effects, but operating systems like emacs and vim have plenty of network effects. If I spend months building an amazing interface to git in Emacs but my colleague uses vim, our organisation is hurt.
That's (I think) why people care: they want to collaborate.
> (FWIW I use nano.)
boggle
