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From: jih@usl.UUCP (Juha I. Heinanen)
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Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto - let the people decide
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 10:24:57 EST
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Brad Templeton writes:

>I am not opposed to any quality product, free or not.  What I don't like
>is inferior products that displace superior products because they were
>written by fanatical communists like RMS.

There are two comments I can't resist to make after reading Brad's
article and the above quote in particular.

First, based on my experience with both CCA Emacs and Gosling's Emacs,
there doesn't exist superior, well supported commercial Emacs that the
GNU Emacs would be likely to displace.  On the contrary, in the DEC
world there are thousands of very happy users of RMS's free Emacs who
would be surprised to hear that in the Unix world you have to pay for
the similar, but in many sense inferior, product.

Second, I don't think that Brad's opinion of RMS as a fanatic communist
is appropriate.  Contrary to the common American belief, every non
capitalist is not necessarily a communist.  I don't personally know RMS,
but rather than being a fanatic communist, he seems to be much closer to
an idealistic software anarchist in the most positive meaning of the
word.

                         Juha Heinanen
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