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From: mart@ele.tue.nl (Mart van Stiphout)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Boycott apple!
Message-ID: <85@euteal.ele.tue.nl>
Date: 21 Jul 89 07:22:04 GMT
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In article <8907202252.AA02288@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> GNURU rms@ai.mit.edu
writes:
>Apple is trying to create a new kind of legal monopoly, a monopoly on
>a class of programs based on their user interface.  If they succeed,
!! >the making of free compatible imitations of commercial software would !!
>be illegal.

You said it. Who do you think you are that you can copy other peoples
ideas and disturb the market by distributing free copies of it.
How would you like it if I took your C compiler, ported it to
computer X and sold it for good money.
There is nothing wrong about creating software and distributing it freely.
It is very wrong to steal someones product and feel good about it.
Shame on you.


Mart van Stiphout
Eindhoven University of Technology
Dept. of Electrical Engineering -- Room EH7.34
P.O.Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Email: mart@euteal.ele.tue.nl
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