lawsuit against FSF (was Re: UNIX history made easy)

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From: Bob Sutterfield
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1989 19:01

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In article <17089@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
   I prefer the GNU grep better, although I understand the four above
   named authors [Gregior, Ritchie, Ebersol, and Pike] are currently
   engaged in a lawsuit against the Free Software Foundation.  Richard
   Stallmen has had to sell his house to finance the suit - the direct
   result of not charging money for software.

Is this true?

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Subject: lawsuit against FSF (was Re: UNIX history made easy)
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