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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: The Selling of GNU Emacs
Message-ID: <1751@culdev1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 13:10:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 13:10:36 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Nov-87 03:29:38 EST
Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA
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rob@philabs.Philips.Com (Rob Robertson) writes:
| The ad said:
| BEGIN QUOTE
| 	   Kyoto Common Lisp and GNU Emacs have been merged
| 	into on high performance LISP and C programming tool.
| [...]
| gee, from their ad i can easily tell they aren't really selling
| GNUemacs or kyoto common lisp.  they are just selling their
| modifications, right?  
| 
| bullshit.  they hacked wrote some elisp glue, and profiled KCL and
| decided to sell KCL and GNUemacs.  they mention nothing about
| modifications and nothing about speed increases.
| 
| gee, when do semi-ligit software houses "co-operate" with Stallman's
| free software ideas?  

There's been a vast amount of ranting about this product.  Does
*anyone* out there have any evidence that ACW is *not* conforming
*exactly* to the FSF licensing restrictions?

(In particular, FSF allows you to sell copies of GNU Emacs for
$1,000,000 -- the only catch is that your customers are free to
redistribute it, so you might not sell many copies.  BUT YOU ARE
ALLOWED TO!)

And if there is no such evidence, could we all please stop assuming
that ACW is being a bad boy, just because they are (gasp!) trying to
*sell* something?

Jeez!

Dale
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