Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mintaka!spdcc!iecc!johnl From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: More creative pricing Message-ID: <1991Feb05.201007.22903@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> Date: 5 Feb 91 20:10:07 GMT References: Organization: I.E.C.C. Lines: 15 In article bei%dogface@cs.utexas.edu (Bob Izenberg) writes: >Mike Marotta posted the following article to alt.cosuard. > ..., William J. Cook cites the "theft" of the source code for the EMACS > editor from an AT&T computer. The code is valued at $10,000. > But EMACS is free! There are many implementations of Emacs. Stallman's GNU Emacs, which is most common these days, is indeed free, but there have been proprietary versions such as Unipress and CCA Emacs. AT&T might actually have been telling the truth. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl " #(ps,#(rs))' " - L. P. Deutsch and C. N. Mooers