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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