[volunteers] Would James Gosling interest you for an svlugmeeting?

Alan DuBoff alan.duboff at sun.com
Wed Aug 6 23:47:23 PDT 2008


On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Alan DuBoff (alan.duboff at sun.com):
>
>> I found this one on sun.com, maybe it will work?
>> http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/bio.jsp?name=James%20Gosling
>
> Almost perfectly, thanks, Alan.
>
> I made a couple of the usual small punctuation fixes.  And... is
> there any way you could tactfully suggest to Dr. Gosling that he probably
> didn't intend for his official bio to imply he was the original author
> of Emacs?
>
> (For anyone who's fuzzy on this contentious period of the Editor Wars, see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosmacs )

I'm cc'ing James on this message. I am not sure if history and/or who 
coded what.

Anyone at Sun can be reached with their firstname.lastname at sun.com, 
including all the executive management, so if you ever want to get to one 
of them, that's the best way.

--

Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group




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