Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Linus' gang: "abandon the current GPLv3 process before it becomes too late"

[Keith Thompson]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
>    I use vim on some systems, nvi on others; the latter is a direct
>    descendant of the original vi.
>
> nvi is not in anyway a direct descendant of vi, it shares nothing with
> it other than how it behaves, much like vim.  nvi is a complete
> reimplementation of vi since vi was (and maybe still is) non-free
> software at the time.  nvi was in turn based on elvis, which was a
> free clone of vi. 

It appears that you're correct.  Thank you.

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