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In article <caycZXD0B...@transarc.com> Pat_B...@TRANSARC.COM writes:
>Stallman (and a cast of thouands...) wrote the original version
>of emacs for ITS, and Stallman started from ground zero trying to make a
>Unix emacs that looked like ITS emacs (and Gosling's emacs really
>isn't very much like ITS emacs).

While RMS did write much of the original version of EMACS for ITS, he
did start with the code that Gosling posted to the net for GNU emacs.
Gosling sold the rights to Unipress, who later contacted RMS about his
Emacs.  By this time, he had rewritten almost the entire editor to be
more to his liking.  However, to avoid further legal trouble, he had
some lawyer go over his code and Gosling's code (or was it Unipress',
I don't know) and make suggestions to how the two could look even less
alike.  Today, there is no original Gosling code in GNU emacs.  It is
entirely the product of RMS (and a cast of thousands) and the FSF.

Details about this were posted to gnu.emacs about a month ago.

Warner

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Warner Losh		i...@Solbourne.COM
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