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From: plato@ele.tue.nl (plato)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: GNUemacs for the Mac
Message-ID: <130@euteal.ele.tue.nl>
Date: 18 Oct 89 08:36:53 GMT
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In article <2616@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>Speaking of which, why the hell do Gosling & Unipress Et al. sell
>emacs for money? Did they reverse engineer it or steal it?

I always thought that it was ok to sell gnu stuff as long as you provide
the sources.

By the way, what's wrong about reverse engineering gnu software.
rms does it all the time and I understand he feels that look and feel
cannot be copyrighted. E.g. fsf also copied the look and feel and
principles of yacc and rewrote it and then restricted its use
because of some parser skeleton evryone can write (shame on fsf).