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From: mg@unipress.uucp (Mike Gallaher)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Unipress and Gnumacs
Message-ID: <104@unipress.uucp>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 15:19:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 15:19:33 1985
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Organization: Unipress Software, Highland Park NJ
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    From: rms@mit-prep
    Date: 27 Jun 85 11:58:34 GMT

    Unfortunately, this will delay the the time you receive the GNU Emacs
    manual.   I'm sure Unipress is happy to have accomplished that.  

    Software sharers are happy if you get good software.  Software-hoarding
    organizations such as Unipress and CCA are looking for ways they can
    restrict you, because each restriction they can manage to impose means
    more pressure on you to pay them.   If there is an alternative to paying
    them, they want to close it off.  

Some people working on the Gnu project obviously feel that they are at odds
with UniPress, and that UniPress is doing everything in its power to damage
them.  If making UniPress be the bad guys, and imagining yourself to be
pitted against them for the good of all mankind, gives you the impetus you
need to write good software, it seems to have worked - Gnumacs is a
fantastic editor.   I suppose every cause needs a nemesis, but please
choose one that is really on the other side.

UniPress has no quarrel with the Gnu project.  It bothers me that people
seem to think we are trying to hinder it.  In fact, we hardly did or said
much at all, except to point out that the Gnumacs code had James Gosling's
copyright in it.  We have not done anything to keep anyone from using
Gnumacs, nor do we intend to now that it is "Gosling-free" (version
16.56).

You can consider this to be an official statement from UniPress:  There is
nothing in Gnumacs version 16.56 that could possibly cause UniPress to get
upset.  If you were afraid to use Gnumacs because you thought we would
hassle you, don't be, on the basis of version 16.56.  

Can we all please get back to our work now, and stop arguing about
copyright law???

mg