On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 11:33:34AM -0400, Al Davis wrote: > On Monday 16 August 2004 03:18 am, Dave McGuire wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2004, at 5:02 PM, Karel Kulhav� wrote: > > > Hey the MIT sounds familiar to me - didn't the free > > > software revolution start there? Didn't Stallman work in > > > MIT AI Lab? > > > > � �Sigh. �Free software has been the way of the UNIX world > > for decades. � Stallman *rode* it...he didn't invent it. > > If you read his own comments, you will see that he knows that. > He was working on a project he thought was free, then the group > leader took it proprietary, in effect stealing it from him and > others in the development group. The real intent of GPL is to > protect developers from losing their own work. > > Check out history of Macsyma and Maxima for more info.
Isn't it somehow connected with all the lisp, lispm, clisp and Symbolics stuff that has been discussed recently here? Cl<
