effects of competition

Thank you in advance for signing the legal papers. When you do something that you think could be used in Emacs, could you let me know? I like the fact that XEmacs and emacs compete - I think we get more because of the competition... It is probably true that more total work is done on XEmacs and Emacs because of this. On the other hand, any extra time I spend on Emacs because of competition is taken away from some other part of the GNU project. If we had all been working together from the beginning, I'm sure that the total progress on GNU software including Emacs would be greater. Perhaps I would be working on some other program by now.