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From: mbrown@tonic.osf.org (Mark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Why did IBM drop GNU emacs from the RS/6000 ?
Keywords: GNU emacs IBM RS/6000 AIX
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Date: 11 Jul 90 00:05:37 GMT
References: <334@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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In article <334@nwnexus.WA.COM>, golder@nwnexus.WA.COM (Warren Jones) writes:
|> IBM says that it stopped distributing GNU emacs with the RS/6000
|> because of the threat of legal action.  Does anyone out there
|> know who was going to sue?  Unipress?

Yes and Yes.

|> Or was the whole concept of the FSF too strange and threatening
|> for IBM's corporate culture to deal with?
|> Warren Jones <golder@nwnexus.wa.com>      Golder Associates Inc.
Ah, the Age of the Cheap Shot is upon us.

DISCLAIMER: I don't speak for IBM. They don't make me wear ties.
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