Interesting. I recall working a bit on Statice, which I believe Weinreb and Lamb? wrote. There was a phenomenal amount of code coming out of that lab, so it's n

Interesting. I recall working a bit on Statice, which I believe Weinreb and Lamb? wrote. There was a phenomenal amount of code coming out of that lab, so it's not surprising that RMS was considered average within that group. I was as TJ Watson then, in math sciences. I recall IBM lawyers not letting RMS come speak at the lab, when one of the guys had invited him to talk about emacs. At the time IBM was quite shy of this "free software" business. I think the account in this article largely comes from the Sam Williams biography of Stallman. I actually own stock in Symbolics, if the company still exists. Last time I saw a statement it was worth $0.02 I was never able to get certificates, which I was hoping to have as a momento, to go with my symbolics mousepad. Thanks for sharing. This sheds a little more light on this piece of history.