Stallman Relinquishing Reins of GNU Emacs After 32 Years | Linux Today

Stallman Relinquishing Reins of GNU Emacs After 32 Years

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 25, 2008

“After more than three decades of work, the message from Richard
Stallman, creator of the GNU Emacs text editor and keeper of its
flame since 1976, couldn’t possibly have been more matter of
fact:

Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing
to hand over Emacs development to them.
…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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