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

Harley Hahn harley at cs.utexas.edu
Wed Jul 11 13:15:51 AEST 1990


In article <334 at nwnexus.WA.COM> golder at nwnexus.WA.COM (Warren Jones) writes:
>IBM says that it stopped distributing GNU emacs with the RS/6000
>because of the threat of legal action.  Does anyone out there
>know who was going to sue?  Unipress?

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




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