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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35490 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1873 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!asuvax!ncar!csn!boulder.parcplace.com!imp From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <C5p9sC.15o@boulder.parcplace.com> Sender: news@boulder.parcplace.com Organization: ParcPlace Boulder References: <1993Apr17.190517.4276@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.205715.11278@coe.montana.edu> <1993Apr17.231000.103368@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 22:14:35 GMT Lines: 24 In article <1993Apr17.231000.103368@zeus.calpoly.edu> jemenake@trumpet.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes: >Apparently the guy who wrote Emacs released it into the public domain. >He made it completely redistributable. As the story was told to me, DEC >Corporation saw Emacs and liked it and decided that they were going to >take it. I don't recall if they just started selling it or if they >somehow "assumed" the rights of emacs. This pissed the guy off... who >decided he was going to write a NEW or "GNU" version of emacs and was >going to reserve the rights just enough so that nobody else could claim >the rights to it. Please check with this reality when posting about the history of gnu Emacs. The above is totally bogus and demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge of what really went down. I'm not qualified to give a blow by blow on the history of Emacs, but I do know that this never happened. Warner P.S. It did happen with another program, but I don't recall the name, so I won't engage in speculation. -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.