Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!ox.com!yale.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!hall From: hall@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Subject: Re: History repeats itself Message-ID: <1991Jun26.171330.3590@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 26 Jun 91 17:13:30 GMT References: Reply-To: hall@aplcen (Marty Hall) Organization: AAI Corp AI Lab, JHU P/T CS Faculty Lines: 25 In article worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) writes: [...] >Well, from where I sit (Boston, the epicenter of Gnu-ism), the >activists in FSF seem to be the same as the activists in LPF, i.e., >old wine in new bottles. Maybe there are people who support the LPF's >objections to certain aspects of the current intellectual property >laws but aren't against intellectual property entirely. But I've >never heard one speak! (Until now.) Don't know what this has to do with comp.archives.admin, nor why I was just reading this group, but there are plenty of LPF'ers who are not at all in the FSF camp. Witness Richard Gabriel, technical director of Lucid, Inc. (A Common LISP house; Sun Common LISP is really Lucid), Guy Steele of Thinking Machines (author of _Common LISP, the Language_ and a central designer of Common LISP), and Patrick Henry Winston, Director of the MIT AI Lab (but also an author of the proprietary San Marco LISP Explorer that Gold Hill markets). Also, I think the new LPF president is a very well-known "mainstream" software guy, with long ties to the Defense industry and other things that FSF wouldn't like. - Marty ------------------------------------------------------ hall@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu, hall%aplcen@jhunix.bitnet, ..uunet!aplcen!hall (setf (need-p 'disclaimer) NIL)