Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meetings at MIT starting this September!

[Karel Kulhavý <clock@twibright.com>]

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 Kulhavý 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<