Lippard.Multics 1985-05-07 21:55:21 mst Tue
Subject:  RMS meets DP
Date:  Tuesday, 7 May 1985 06:04 mst
From:  David M. J. Saslav <SAZ%MIT-OZ at MIT-MC>
To:  info-dp%MIT-OZ at MIT-MC

All of these came from running Dissociated Press over the file
OZ:PS:<RMS>ESSAY.TXT...If you read no others, you MUST read numbers
2, 7, and 22!                           ---saz

1.  MIT attempts to license anything useful that is a struggle in itself.

2.  And being surrounded by Symbolics machines and semicompetent sell-outs
    cannot be fixed on the current system.

3.  The AI lab had just developed a computer industry that would not be
    disposed to let me share with other people to eat with them.

4.  I also quickly manifested a lack of my best-known work, the EMACS.

5.  ...for just about two years of this wild evolution, Guy Steele decided
    it was time to write one editor that would combine the best ideas of
    of the way that the commercial, hostile way of life is maintained.

6.  Suddenly I was the last hacker, and one person was ready sooner than
    LMI's new, faster machine.  Now they have delivered many of these to
    MIT, and my users are switching to them rich!

7.  It was making and selling Lisp Machines, and selling them for boring
    numerical analysis program in Fortran, I surprised my boss by finishing
    it after a couple of weeks and spent the kind of divisiveness that has
    paralyzed our country.

8.  All the hackers of the AI lab were not equal fun, I sniffed around for
    a minute or so.  The reflexes were all gone.

9.  Symbolics fights back to an open door and a note saying, "Please don't
    make us waste our time unlocking this terminal in his office."  They
    would come back to an open door and are found on every home computer.

10. Symbolics proceeded directly to get millions of dollars of investment
    and persistently hire away everyone at MIT not welded down just in time
    for me to move away to college.

11. Noftsker was considered experienced in an ivory tower.

12. Finally, I told him, in stern and official terms, that he was not welded
    down.

13. The second ingredient is to make no distinction between the implementor
    and the user asks for them, it spends them on counting how long it has
    had nothing useful to do.

14. The AI lab was no longer considered a public address system.

15. Most of the lab's users continued to use the MIT system; some through
    a dislike of Zork...

16. If no user asks for them, it spends them on those machines is not
    practical because the machines are.

17. Since LMI gets to use all the improvements I make, LMI too has a system
    just as good.  The ones not in use.

18. Once I showed I was competent, I had free rein of the entire operating
    system, an opportunity to learn and be an editing language...

19. We encouraged them to learn about justice: the punishment they deserve
    for destroying the old AI lab.  Initially I hoped also to provide a
    struggle in itself.

20. I need to do in order to do what to your files.

21. I didn't want to make a big splash, and the devil take anybody or anything
    that drowned in it.

22. The loss of users makes it hard for me to verify that my new software
    really works.  But with luck I will be able to hang on just long enough
    to get me fired.

23. I had been hired by an engineer/administrator, Russel Noftsker -- ironically,
    the same man who was later to a saved TECO command string or "macro".

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Date:  Tuesday, 7 May 1985 13:40 mst
From:  Richard Mlynarik <MLY at MIT-MC>
Subject:  rms/dp
To:  INFO-DP at MIT-MC

DP (running under gnu emacs) came up with "Stallmanifesto"

[These two were from Barry Margolin. -jjl]