karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU (09/29/90)
Richard Stallzman (spelling) just received a McArthur Foundation "Genius" grant award of about 4-500,000.00 dollars for his effort as the Free Software Foundation. I expect that we can see more good works, improvements, and fixes to emacs and their other freeware. I wrote Unipress (emacs@unipress.com) and their owner, Fred Pack (fhp@unipress.com) some time ago about their plans, and they have not replied. I doubt that they are even listening. I don't think that it is wise for sgi to sell unipress emacs, especially since it works so poorly on such a good machine. My impression is that you can not buy, sell, or commercialize the spirit of unix and c software development, no matter how many drone programmers you hire and beat code out of. Alls we need is a good free database system, but then you can use unix itself for that. Post free or die ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | karron@nyu.edu Dan Karron | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue \ \ Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 \**\ <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> | | (212) 340 5210 \**\__________________________________________ | | Please Note :Soon to move to dan@karron.med.nyu.edu 128.122.135.3 (Mid Oct)| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+