Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!scs From: scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Query: Status of Mach cleanout? Message-ID: <3072@itivax.iti.org> Date: 26 Aug 89 14:50:43 GMT References: <12720001@eecs.nwu.edu> <1311000001@upba> Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI. Lines: 22 mellon@zayante.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) writes: >Michael DeCorte sez, >>The result is that I can BUY a version of TeX that will have support. >>I can not do that with Gnu Emacs. Nobody can sell it and things tend >>to get done fairly slowly if ever. >Yes, you can. The difference is that the company that's supporting >Emacs for you must give you the source code. This means that if you >aren't satisfied with their support, you can fix it yourself. I think you're confusing 'can' (are permitted to) with 'can' (here's where you get it). Yes, there is no provision that forbids one from selling a support GNU emacs per se. I can (have a source for) TeX with a support contract, preprinted manuals, and a precompiled pre- configured easy-to-install (well...) binary. Is there such a place for GNU emacs? -- Steve Simmons scs@vax3.iti.org Industrial Technology Institute Ann Arbor, MI. "Velveeta -- the Spam of Cheeses!" -- Uncle Bonsai