In response to the Jan. 17 Newsmaker interview with James Gosling, "Why Microsoft's C# isn't": In your interview with James Gosling, he says that he was "responsible for the original Emacs, 23 years ...

Emacs is well known as an editor, but calling Emacs an editor is like calling the Queen Mary a boat. The source RPM for Emacs 21.1 is some 20MB—huge for an editor. You don't have to use all of it, but ...

In a world where both software and hardware frequently become obsolete right on release, two rival programs can stake a claim to being among the longest-lived applications of all time. Both programs ...

The message posted Friday, Feb. 22 on emacs-devel by Richard Stallman was cryptic: “Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them.” Just like that: 32 ...

McDonald’s Corporation has completed the sale of its interest in eMac Digital, a technology solutions provider to the restaurant industry, to Accel-KKR, a private equity firm and co-founder of eMac.