[ale] Re: Emacs and RMS (was Re: [ale] gentoo)

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Michael Hirsch wrote:

> Also interesting to me was that Stallman was not a Unix hacker when the
> GNU project was started.  He cast around for a good OS to clone and
> decided that Unix was it, but MIT, where RMS lived, was not a Unix
> shop.  He was a multics hacker.

Yes, but do you know the comment that K or R (I don't recall which) made 
regarding a comparison of multics and unix?

> 
> Michael

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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