Re: Microsoft notepad.exe paywall

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

D <nospam@example.net> writes:
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2025, D wrote:
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:51:19 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver
<bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:

After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to
Notepad
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for text editing, these freewares work superbly:
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libre office https://libreoffice.org notetab lite
https://notetab.com/notetab-light ted notepad
https://jsimlo.sk/notepad
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Emacs can be run on Windows too.

And I've used it for over ten years, which made me even enjoy Windows.
I had to bring together a lot of programs, though.  For instance, when
you load ESHELL, you still need various UNIX programs to be comfortable
such as find, cat and so on.  Sure, ESHELL provides many replacements
with built-in Lisp procedures, but not everything.