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Re: Binary Driver Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Wed Jun 19 11:40:00 1996
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 07:37:48 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: tlewis@mindspring.com
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960618192920.23971G-100000@reflections.mindspring.com> (message from Todd Graham Lewis on Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:38:46 -0400)
From: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:38:46 -0400
(bzzzzt.) Wrong.
RMS wrote emacs. He gave away the source. Gosling took the source and
started selling Gosling emacs. RMS wrote the GPL to prevent this.
(bzzzzt.) Wrong.
You have your history rather wrong here. Gosling's Emacs was written
completely separately from anything Stallman had written. It came years
*before* GNU Emacs, being only loosely based on ITS/TOPS-20 Emacs and TOPS-10
FINE.
Leonard
