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Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Posted Feb 18, 2008 21:12 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? by smoogen
Parent article: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

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If RMS hadn't been pissed about proprietary Emacs
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When was Emacs proprietary? 


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Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Posted Feb 18, 2008 22:15 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

One example of a proprietary Emacs was Gosling Emacs, which started out open source (of a
sort) then went proprietary as Unipress Emacs.  It was nowhere near as nice as GNU Emacs once
that matured, but it was around before that - early 80s at least.  I once wrote a filtering
newsgroup reader based on Gosling Emacs - this tool worked quite well but dealing with the
fairly horrible and slow Mocklisp included in that Emacs was painful...

Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Posted Feb 18, 2008 23:37 UTC (Mon) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

My recollection of Gosling Emacs was that the embedded language was more C like than Lisp
like... I might even still have a manual in my basement somewhere.

Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Posted Feb 18, 2008 22:19 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

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