Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!leander.think.com!barmar From: barmar@leander.think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: FSF featured in "The Guardian" Message-ID: <31715@news.Think.COM> Date: 18 Nov 89 20:35:05 GMT References: <48453@bbn.COM> Sender: news@Think.COM Distribution: gnu Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA Lines: 21 In article <48453@bbn.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes: >zmacx07@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon E Spero) writes: >> Stallman ... >>... developed the influential Emacs (Editing Macros) word >>processing system, which is available on a wide range of computers. >Who is spreading this bit of misinformation around? Has rms said it enough >that HE believes it? Do other over-enthusiastic FSF'ers perpetuate it? Some >ethics and standards... taking credit for other peoples work without a MENTION >of them. What's wrong with the statement? When I was at MIT, we all considered RMS the creator of the original PDP-10 EMACS. While he didn't write all the macros himself, he is the one who implemented much of the underlying TECO support for interactive display-oriented editing ("^R mode"), and he did bring the macro packages together into the cohesive whole that is what we now know as EMACS. Prior to Stallman's efforts, there were a number of competing, less complete macro packages. Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar