Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!uupsi!sunic!tut!funic!santra!santra!jaho From: jaho@otax.tky.hut.fi (Jaakko Aho) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: IBM and FSF (was Why did IBM drop GNU emacs from the RS/6000 ?) Message-ID: Date: 25 Jul 90 17:26:08 GMT References: <334@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1990Jul11.171734.5881@tsa.co.uk> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: domo@tsa.co.uk's message of 11 Jul 90 17:17:34 GMT In article <1990Jul11.171734.5881@tsa.co.uk> domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes: In article <334@nwnexus.WA.COM> golder@nwnexus.WA.COM (Warren Jones) writes: >Or [did IBM drop emacs because] the whole concept of the FSF too strange >and threatening for IBM's corporate culture to deal with? Or was it only last year that IBM contributed a useful sum (was it $25,000?) to FSF? I do not know anything about 'a useful sum', but FSF has been given at least one RS/6000 machine. The concept of FSF was not threateninig to IBM, the reasons behind dropping GNU Emacs from distribution were different. Unipress threatened IBM with a lawsuit over some code in GNU Emacs. IBM and FSF decided not to distribute Emacs in RS/6000 family. FSF has promised to to supply a version of GNU Emacs that will work in RS/6000's and IBM's customers are asked to get a copy from FSF. -- Dominic Dunlop -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jaakko Aho "Sometimes I think the surest sign that jaho@otax.tky.hut.fi intelligent life exists elsewhere in the k34420n@puukko.hut.fi universe is that none of it has tried to +358-0-468 2857 contact us" - Calvin&Hobbes ----------------------------------------------------------------------