Re: official editor of the KGB

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From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1991 12:20

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>>> >From THE ECONOMIST, 14 September 1991, p. 106:
>>>     "The Russians were rooked."  The KGB paid several thousand
>>>     dollars for a word processor, called GNU Emacs, which is widely
>>>     distributed free in western universities.

If it was the US government they would have sent around an RFP, gotten
bids from the normal slime-ball government contractors and paid
millions to have a less functional (mil-spec) editor written especially
for them.

-wolfgang
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From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
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Subject: Re: official editor of the KGB
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