Re: FSF vs AT&T (?)

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From: David Chase
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 01:35

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vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera) writes:
>We just got a demo IBM PowerStation and when we asked whether they
>already had GNU Emacs loaded on it they said they used to ship them
>with GNU but "since AT&T brought suit against FSF we [IBM] don't ship
>them with it."  Is there any truth to this?

That particular story sounds unlikely.  Check to see if it might have
been an editor vendor (for example, Unipress) instead.  As a general
rule, IBM seems to be very wary of lawsuits (seing as how their
pockets are so very deep), and I'm sure that they didn't want shipment
of their new hardware held up by any injunction involving
non-essential software that customers could obtain by other means.
Based on my experience with such things in the past, I'd call this
prudent behavior on IBM's part -- anything could happen in court, even
with all of IBM's lawyers.

David Chase
Sun Microsystems

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From: chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase)
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Subject: Re: FSF vs AT&T (?)
Summary: I think someone is confused
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