Re: My Proposal - (A Contest: Caastles in the Sand)

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

    Edward> GNU already has the best word processor in the world
    Edward> EMACS. Just rip out the athena code replacing it with GTK
    Edward> update M-x richtext and bob's your uncle, you have a word
    Edward> proccessor that outstrips anything Microsoft will ever
    Edward> write.

Not quite: emacs does not do "word processing".  It does much better,
by allowing you to edit TeX, SGML and other typesetting markup, but it 
is not a WYSIWYG word processor that you can give your mom and dad.
That is what people are talking about here.