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I'd put emacs and gcc by Richard Stallman on the list. (Obviously they subsequently grew to way more than one persons efforts.)
by tconfrey 5y ago
I'd put emacs and gcc by Richard Stallman on the list. (Obviously they subsequently grew to way more than one persons efforts.)
- riidom 5y agoand GPL license
- indrora 5y agoThe Emacs you know today was written by James Gosling (of Java fame), which had its copyright and license headers stripped off and the GPL slapped on it with Stallman's name added. Gosling had quite a bit of help from others, as was the habit in the Emacs Commune. To this day, Gosling is a little perturbed, from what I know. Stallman hasn't made major contributions to the project in well over a decade, and basically anything high level makes him confused. [0] GCC has a long and storied history, and most of the code written by Stallman originally has been replaced with something better. Similarly, I don't believe he hasn't made major technical contributions in at least 20 years or so. [0] https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html