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earthpigg
August 23rd, 2010, 09:22 AM
An Oracle employee did, obviously.

http://nighthacks.org/roller/jag/resource/bio.html


He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint based drawing editor and a text editor called `Emacs' for Unix systems.

A claim that i find hilarious, given his recent blog post (http://nighthacks.org/roller/jag/entry/quite_the_firestorm) about his company filing a law suit against google for infringing their patented invention.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#History
1972

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs
1981

clearly, this was his invention - he did put it on unix first, after all.

Anyways, what do you think about his point here:


When Google came to us with their thoughts on cellphones, one of their core principles was making the platform free to handset providers. They had very weak notions of interoperability, which, given our history, we strongly objected to. Android has pretty much played out the way that we feared: there is enough fragmentation among Android handsets to significantly restrict the freedom of software developers.

and:


This skirmish isn't much about patents or principles or programming languages. The suit is far more about ego, money and power.

(At least he admits what the company he helps run is after...)

[h2o]
August 23rd, 2010, 10:14 AM
I don't see the fuss. He did create an "Emacs" text editor that ran on Unix and had some quite advanced features. So what's the problem?

RiceMonster
August 23rd, 2010, 01:02 PM
meh.

slackthumbz
August 23rd, 2010, 02:36 PM
meh.

This.

juancarlospaco
August 23rd, 2010, 02:38 PM
Linus dont created the Linux Kernel, he just downloaded from http://taringa.net/