Re: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")
From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr>
Date: 13 Oct 1998 22:30:29 +0200
What he means is: if Microsoft were to enhance XEmacs and not give out
the source,
As a practical matter this would increase the number of emacs users
and not hurt the free software movement in the slightest.
Several Common Lisp venders used (or so it is alleged) parts of the
Public Domain CMU Common Lisp implementation in their proprietary,
source-not-available systems without having any negative impact on
CMUCL, which has significantly outlived at least one of those vendors.
it would be very hard for any of us to sue them because of the
copyright being spread over many different persons and companies.
This part would be true regardless of any stack of papers RMS' lawyers
may hold.
Rick
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