Re: What improvements would be truly useful?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > No, I think not. Consider this scenario. I start editing some text on
  > google docs with a collaborator; after a while we export the doc into
  > word, share this with Dropbox, then eventually one person takes it over.
  > Is this text really not a document till we download it?

With all due respect, I think you're disputing a misunderstanding.

As far as I know, what people edit with Google Docs is a document.  It
can be copied to a computer (though doing so requires running nonfree
software) and viewed or edited there.

Google Docs is a service for storing documents that is designed for
editing them using nonfree software.

  > All of which gets back what I think was the point of the OP; Emacs would
  > be a better tool if it supported the web. We've been having intense
  > discussions about widget toolkits; what about a web-delivered Emacs?

What exactly would that mean?  Could you describe the scenario by giving
names or letters to each of the computers involved, and saying what job each
computer does?

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