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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copyrights
Message-ID: <12192@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Feb 90 17:40:18 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6791@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>	I just thought of one good example.. Richard Greenblatt... I hope
>he's the correct character from "Hackers" [where I learned about him]...

No, you're thinking of Richard M. Stallman of the GNU project.
Greenblatt is the fellow who designed a LISP machine that eventually
LMI and Symbolics got into lawsuits over.

>The guy that's writing a freeware UNIX clone... That guy actually has
>some admirable qualities by trying to make such a huge project free, I'd
>just rather make money off it.

I don't know how worthwhile pursuing a freebie UNIX look-alike is,
with Mach being overhauled to remove AT&T license dependency (and thus
become another source of "free UNIX") and with AT&T UNIX acquiring new
important functionality at a rapid rate.  The GNU project has nonetheless
produces some useful software products, e.g. EMACS, GCC, BISON, etc.
You can find out what's available by anonymous FTP to PREP.AI.MIT.EDU
(at least I seem to recall that's the GNU host).