> 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?
> 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.