Why did IBM drop GNU emacs from the RS/6000 ?
Mark Brown
mbrown at tonic.osf.org
Wed Jul 11 10:05:37 AEST 1990
In article <334 at nwnexus.WA.COM>, golder at nwnexus.WA.COM (Warren Jones) writes:
|> IBM says that it stopped distributing GNU emacs with the RS/6000
|> because of the threat of legal action. Does anyone out there
|> know who was going to sue? Unipress?
Yes and Yes.
|> Or was the whole concept of the FSF too strange and threatening
|> for IBM's corporate culture to deal with?
|> Warren Jones <golder at nwnexus.wa.com> Golder Associates Inc.
Ah, the Age of the Cheap Shot is upon us.
DISCLAIMER: I don't speak for IBM. They don't make me wear ties.
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