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> You purchase a copy of Open Genera for the DEC Alpha for $5000 from David Schmidt.

LOL. Great, anyone got a spare Alpha lying around?

> This Wikipedia entry does a good job at explaining the impact this part of history had on RMS

I'm looking at this line: "Unfortunately this openness would later lead to accusations of intellectual property theft."

That doesn't really capture the acrimony iirc. I was just a youngin' at the time, but I remember overhearing rms get a phone call; I believe it was from someone at the Symbolics legal team. They were trying to explain to him how he had violated something-or-another because he built some LISP feature from scratch.

They went round in circles for a while, finally rms tired of the conversation and ended it. It was a very bizarre conversation for an academic environment like the AI Lab.



>LOL. Great, anyone got a spare Alpha lying around?

IIRC, there's a Linux version that owners of Open Genera for the DEC Alpha are allowed to download.


there are Alpha emulators.


So there are. Thanks to you and stray for pointing this out.




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