From:	hans AT brandinnovators DOT com (Hans Zuidam)
Subject:	Re: Starting all over from 16.1 ?
17 Feb 1997 02:01:41 -0800 :
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In-Reply-To:	<c=US%a=_%p=E-Stamp%l=MERCURY-970215034918Z-2774@mercury.e-stamp.com> from James Osburn at "Feb 14, 97 09:49:18 pm"
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> James Osburn wrote:
> i have been following the thread here but what is RMS and what was: 
> 	"the Symbolics code grab that was one of the impetuses for RMS starting GNU"
See "Hackers", by Stephen Levy...  I don't have any more details
about the book at hand, but it was published somewhere in '83.  In
Eric Raymonds' "The New Hackers Dictionary" (also called "The Jargon
File", see the web) there is a more complete reference.

As far as I know, the real reason for starting GNU was the copyrighting
by MIT of emacs which opened the possibility for MIT to deny others
access to the emacs sources.

Regards,

				Hans

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