I should be wary of the account anyhow. For calibration: it's just false to say egcs was due to "friends of Cygnus" and "hostile"; it was friends of GCC with t

I should be wary of the account anyhow. For calibration: it's just false to say egcs was due to "friends of Cygnus" and "hostile"; it was friends of GCC with the intention it should turn out as it did, happily. I can't find anything archived to check but, as I recall, Lord later posted a bizarre sort of semi-retraction in rms' name, and rms fired him soon afterwards, possibly as a result. Perhaps that's partly a source of rms-didn't-write-it ideas? I don't remember the suggestion at the time.