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RE: Re^2: FSF featured in "The Guardian"

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From: "Richard Outerbridge, Oceanograp...
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1989 12:22
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This is worse than bickering over ownership of software. Now we are bickering
over parenthood of ideas. I suppose that if someone convinces St. Peter that
he was the real creative force behind EMACS, he will somehow gain a seat closer
to God in the main dining room, while the others will be forced to eat with
mere archangels?

The fact is that I invented EMACS while I was Socrates a couple of millenia
ago. I was merely waiting for someone to invent a proper medium. By the time
that occurred I had lost interest and wass busy inventing ideas that wouldn't
be though of until the 40th century.

Of course all ideas are already there waiting for someone to see them.
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