Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!lum From: lum@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Boycott apple! Summary: FLAME Message-ID: Date: 21 Jul 89 23:28:16 GMT References: <8907202252.AA02288@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <85@euteal.ele.tue.nl> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: The Ohio State University, IRCC/CIS Joint Computing Laboratory Lines: 26 In-reply-to: mart@ele.tue.nl's message of 21 Jul 89 07:22:04 GMT In article <85@euteal.ele.tue.nl> mart@ele.tue.nl (Mart van Stiphout) writes: > 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. Shame on you. The FSF have stolen nothing; getting a program to do any damn thing you can think of is only a small matter of programming. I can do it; you can do it; anyone can do it. Apple, on the other hand, are widely acknowledged to have stolen the ideas for their user interface from Xerox, admittedly with Xerox' connivance, who were stupid enough to not appropriately distrust Apple. I recently had the opportunity to buy a personal computer. I could quite easily have bought a Mac II, but I bought an old PDP-11/23 clone because I could be certain what I was getting and what I could expect. Lum -=- -- Lum Johnson lum@cis.ohio-state.edu lum@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu "You got it kid -- the large print giveth and the small print taketh away." -------