[LUAU] origins of Project GNU questioned...

[Jim Thompson]

Dan Weinreb (one of the co-founders of Symbolics, along with Moon,  
Holloway, and Knight) finally has spoken publicly about RMS, the start  
of Project GNU, and why Symbolics failed.

<http://dlweinreb.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/rebuttal-to-stallmans-story-about-the-formation-of-symbolics-and-lmi/ 
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Note that Moon and Greenburg (both hot-shot hackers easily as good or  
better than Stallman) weigh in about the origins of emacs in the  
comment thread.

See also:  <http://dlweinreb.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/why-did-symbolics-fail/ 
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Also, apparently wnj (Bill Joy) was the "unix hacker" who didn't  
understand the "PC loser-ing problem" (PCLSRing), as referenced in  
Gabriel's "Worse is Better" (<http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html 
 >): <http://programming.reddit.com/info/60uau/comments/c02hjk6>