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"How Emacs fits inside of Unix philosophy"

I see this time and again. Why is there a need to fit Emacs inside the Unix philosophy? I think it's perfectly fine if it doesn't.

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For the same reason certain religion known for door-to-door proselytism insists on being classified as Christianity: because it recruits from other Christian groups. Similarly, Emacs recruits users mainly from software devs and Linux users, many of whom have almost religious belief in Unix philosophy.

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