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From: liang@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang)
Newsgroups: net.emacs,net.followup,net.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: Public Domain EMACS available from GNU Project
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 18:30:40 EST
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> While GNU is a Good Thing, and Usenet is a good way to distribute it,
> net.sources.gnu is not the right answer.
> 
> For one thing, there is only the one piece of code, the EMACS, that
> is ready to go out.  My impression is that pieces of GNU will be
> slow in coming and well separated.
> 

Thats not exactly right.  There are plenty of things done in GNU.  Many
utilities and programs.  Just because rms only mentioned the public domain
emacs in the Dr. Dobb's article.....

-eli
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