Why did IBM drop GNU emacs from the RS/6000 ?

drake at drake.almaden.ibm.com drake at drake.almaden.ibm.com
Thu Jul 12 10:01:55 AEST 1990


In article <9921 at cs.utexas.edu> harley at cs.utexas.edu (Harley Hahn) writes:

>BTW, if you look in the offical IBM Quick Pricer, you can see that they
>were going to charge $125 for distributing EMACS.

So what?  The FSF itself charges $150.00!


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