YOU EVIL SOFTWARE HOARDER!!!! Ha ha, just joking. ;) I worked for UniPress too, on Emacs. There was a certain professional animosity between Stallman and UniPr

YOU EVIL SOFTWARE HOARDER!!!! Ha ha, just joking. ;) I worked for UniPress too, on Emacs. There was a certain professional animosity between Stallman and UniPress. Stallman had a justifiable axe to grind against UniPress, which he expressed by calling UniPress "Evil Software Hoarders". But between the individual people, it was more like the relationship between the cartoon sheepdog and the coyote, that was friendly and respectful after everyone had punched out of work. Just after RMS's house had burned down, Mike "Emacs Hacker Boss" and I were wandering around a science fiction convention and ran into RMS (who is a fixture in the east coast SF con scene). Mike sincerely asked him, "Richard, I heard a terrible rumor that your house had burnt down. Is that true?" To which RMS replied without missing a beat, "Yes, but where you work, you must have heard about it in advance." We all had a great laugh from that -- RMS is a very funny guy who's quick on his feet, with a sharp sense of humor! Just don't let him get under your skin, like when you post a baby announcement to a mailing list for arranging dinner get-togethers on the other side of the country than he lives: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-doctor.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-doctor.html Here's an old picture of JSOL, RMS, Liz and Mike, where RMS is holding a gerbil wrapped in duct tape, about to ask, "I don't know, why do you wrap gerbils in duct tape?" (Now you can ask google if you really want to know...) http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/jsol-rms-gerbil-liz-mg.jpg http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/jsol-rms-gerbil-liz-m...