Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site godot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!godot!massar From: massar@godot.UUCP (J.P. Massar) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Emacs cost Message-ID: <1127@godot.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 12:08:49 EST Article-I.D.: godot.1127 Posted: Fri Mar 1 12:08:49 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 04:42:15 EST References: <172@encore.UUCP> <137@osu-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Lines: 29 > In conclusion, then: No, there is no public domain Gosling's Emacs. Yes, > there are versions you can get, with some difficulty, without paying the > (rather high) price which Unipress charges. No, Mr Gosling will not want to > give permission to do so very often. For a piece of code as complicated and as useful as Emacs (either CCA's / Zimmerman's or Unipress's / Goslings) the 'rather high' price which is charged is ridiculously low! Emacs could never have been developed commerically and sold at these prices... The only reason supported versions of Emacs exist at all is that James Gosling and Steve Zimmerman worked long hours for no compensation (Richard Stallman and Chris Torek should be included here also) many years ago. Is it not worth some $200 / person (or less, depending on how many people you have on a machine who use Emacs) as a ONE TIME COST? Give me a break... Note: Please, I do not mean to insult whomever wrote the above comment. I merely want people to think about the effort involved and the 'cost/benefit' ratio of an editor like Emacs. I got paid to work on CCA Emacs / Elisp, but appreciate all the work that was done gratis before that. -- -- JP Massar, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA -- ihnp4!godot!massar -- massar@cca-unix