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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7737 ; Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:20:59 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:10387 comp.unix.wizards:28351 gnu.misc.discuss:7743 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!stein.u.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: ENOUGH! Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Date: 24 Jan 1993 09:21:37 GMT Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1jtn31INNl22@shelley.u.washington.edu> References: <1ja6bgINNh23@chnews.intel.com> <MIKE.93Jan22144301@cuba.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at> <1993Jan23.212839.7548@prl.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes: >> * vi (eek - but better than ed) BSD > >rob pike's jim & sam > Amusing but irrelevant comment: Pike wrote these editors after the following statement: "Everybody writes an editor. It's easy to do and makes them feel important. Tell them to work on something useful." Those of us that this comment was about (a couple of people at Caltech who got involved in a "I could write a better editor than you" "Oh no you can't, I can" match, and then spent the night at terminals across the room writing editors and shouting out to each other what features they had just added) were quite amused when, a couple of months later, Pike started working on jim! --Tim Smith