GNU Project

GNU Project

Posted Sep 30, 2007 16:23 UTC (Sun) by filker0 (guest, #31278)
In reply to: To Zoborov by Zoborov
Parent article: The Linux Driver Project takes off

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
was sort of on the perpiphery of his social circle at the time, and for few years around that time I
saw him fairly frequently at social and technical gatherings.

I don't recall Xerox having much to do with the formation of GNU. But I wasn't a close confidant, so
there's much I probably don't know about first hand.

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