> I once submitted a bug to the Emacs mailing list and after determining > it was indeed a defect, a flame war ensued between maintainers of > different subsyst

> I once submitted a bug to the Emacs mailing list and after determining > it was indeed a defect, a flame war ensued between maintainers of > different subsystems that were competing over how a specific feature > was supposed to be used, which was the source of the bug. It was > offputting and felt juvenile. Social problems are inevitable in any > open source project, but I can’t help but wonder if the highly dynamic > nature of Emacs Lisp causes more problems than a less dynamic language > would. Commercial developers have many internal discussions, with the difference that they will not show it to you.