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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style
Date: 1998/11/19
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In article <m31zn4wr4n.fsf@fred.muc.de> Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:
>Regarding your assertion that big Open Source software always have a fixed
>spec because they're cloning something: good counter examples are GNU emacs
>and PGP (before it went commercial) 

Actually, GNU EMACS was a clone of ITS EMACS, though that was also 
Open Software (in a sense) and written by the same person.