Emacs.net

This just seems like a solution in search of a question. [Link]

Via Chris Sells comes this cryptic message from Microsoft's Doug Purdy:

We are looking for developers/testers to build a tool that I will roughly describe as "Emacs.Net".

No more details than that, but it should be enough to get your brain moving in the right direction.

Which he then elaborates in comments:

Emacs is a text editor. Emacs is used to write apps (and a whole lot more) on different platforms. Emacs is hyper-extensible. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs.
Imagine if someone wanted to write something like Emacs.Net. Actually don't imagine it, it is happening.

The literal reading of the post (a clone of emacs) is too absurd to credit. As put by a commenter:

Neat, so you want to make a clone of a free, open-source, extensible text editor that is loved by millions and write your own closed-source, proprietary, extensible-with-subscription text editor of your own?

Yeahbuhwhat?