People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

— Richard Stallman, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (2002)

Source: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch08.html

Quoted in Sam Williams's 2002 book about Stallman.

Topics: programming