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From: mike@bambi.UUCP (Mike Caplinger)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Question of curiosity: who is still buying Unipress or CCA?
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 10:38:26 EDT
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Let's face it, some of us just don't have the time to learn a new and
at least slightly different Emacs variant.  I still use Gosling's and
probably will for the forseeable future, just because I have a big
investment in knowing how to use it, and a big pile of MLisp code
(and don't tell me about automatic conversion!)

Also, in all fairness tracking the various releases of GNU would seem
to be a full-time job, and we don't have the time to do it.  Most people
around here still use Montgomery's Emacs for the same reason I use
Gosling's -- they're used to it.

Unipress Emacs is pretty cheap, and money is hardly a big issue in some
companies.  Besides, it's supported, kind of.  (Actually I can't make
any comments about what support is like these days.  In the past it wasn't
too great.)

You can only imagine that some companies wouldn't be too thrilled with
the "GNU Manifesto".  In fact, I've never checked, but it would be
a not totally unreasonable response if our lawyers refused to let
us use GNU for that reason.

	Mike Caplinger
	mike@bellcore.com

Personal opinion only.
Obviously.