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To ZoborovTo ZoborovPosted Sep 30, 2007 15:54 UTC (Sun) by Zoborov (guest, #29327)In reply to: To Zoborov by Zoborov Parent article: The Linux Driver Project takes off
The funny thing is that this was the docs for the font format that Xerox had on the engine that DEC got from them to put in the LN01 laser printer. I worked for DEC at the time in a related department. The LN01 was a DEC product. I wrote a font editor to create loadable fonts for it, thus making it more useful, thus increasing sales. Xerox was having none of it, though, back in 1983 or thereabouts.Ironic, indeed. Xerox's refusal to provide adequate documentation spawned the entire GNU project.
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GNU Project Posted Sep 30, 2007 16:23 UTC (Sun) by filker0 (guest, #31278) [Link] I believe, actually, that it was when Unipress Emacs (based on James Gosling's C version of EMACS,based on RMS's original TECO EMACS) was in the market and RMS wasn't able to get the source (based on his original work) from Unipress so that he could modify it to fit his needs.
All of this was over 20 years ago. I remember RMS being more than a little put out at the time. I
I don't recall Xerox having much to do with the formation of GNU. But I wasn't a close confidant, so
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