From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: Re: GNU Emacs release dates Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:10:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <010701c4cd4c$6e19f520$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100805084 28829 80.91.229.6 (18 Nov 2004 19:11:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 20:11:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CUrgU-0001BY-00 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:11:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUrpL-0008B1-DC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:20:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUrp2-00089e-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:20:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUrp1-000899-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUrp1-000896-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.168.110.189] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUrg8-0000fD-BE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:10:48 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:10:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:25:22 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30040 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:17057 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30040 My memory is that DEC pursued the legal cases that Gosling (or the company he was with) was bringing against companies that used GNU Emacs. DEC won. The GNU Emacs code was OK. >>From the point of view of an outsider, it looked that Gosling was bringing a case which most companies would not fight in court. The anti-GNU Emacs case was that any MBA would see that the payment sought by Gosling would cost less than a legal case, even if the legal case was won. Moreover, no MBA would figure a ban on GNU Emacs would be worth anything since it involved free markets and software freedom, not monopoly or other restriction. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc