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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 20:19:47 EDT
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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
From conversations with  Michael Veach and Warren  Montgomery,  I know
ATT   was  rather  unhappy   about  Steve  Zimmerman's   use of Warren
Montgomery's version of emacs.  When I was fixing some bugs  in it for
Project Athena, I noticed  that all  the names  of files are from  the
Montgomery version and  that a lot of code  was  quite reminiscent  of
the  Montgomery code which  I hacked on  at Bell Laboratories.  Now in
fact, I  hacked on  Michael Veach's version  of Montgomery's  code.  I
suspect if I had had a pure Montgomery  version, it would  have looked
rather more similar.

If there truly   is  a  problem with   the distribution of  Gnu  Emacs
because of potential ownership  of the code by Unipress,  I would hope
Unipress  would quickly   clue  us in because   neither I nor  Project
Athena  nor   any other installation is  terribly  interested in legal
hassles.

Also, I would like  somewhat more  dispassionate analysis.  Assertions
by RMS  (author of Gnu  Emacs) and  by Steve Zimmerman  (author of CCA
Emacs) can hardly be considered unbiased or disinterested.