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

[Mark Brown]

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?

Yes and Yes.

|> Or was the whole concept of the FSF too strange and threatening
|> for IBM's corporate culture to deal with?
|> Warren Jones <golder at nwnexus.wa.com>      Golder Associates Inc.
Ah, the Age of the Cheap Shot is upon us.

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