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Subject: emacs : commercial vs free
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Date: 28 Sep 90 22:58:01 GMT
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Richard Stallzman (spelling) just received a McArthur Foundation "Genius"
grant award of about 4-500,000.00 dollars for his effort as the Free Software
Foundation.

I expect that we can see more good works, improvements, and fixes to emacs
and their other freeware.

I wrote Unipress (emacs@unipress.com) and their owner, Fred Pack
(fhp@unipress.com) some time ago about their plans, and they have not replied.
I doubt that they are even listening.

I don't think that it is wise for sgi to sell unipress emacs, especially since
it works so poorly on such a good machine.

My impression is that you can not buy, sell, or commercialize the spirit
of unix and c software development, no matter how many drone programmers
you hire and beat code out of. Alls we need is a good free database system,
but then you can use unix itself for that.

Post free or die !

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