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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: More politics from info-gnu-emacs (was: GNUemacs for the Mac)
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.232911.10592@rpi.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 89 23:29:11 GMT
References: <908@cc.helsinki.fi> <127@euteal.ele.tue.nl>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In article <127@euteal.ele.tue.nl>, plato@ele.tue.nl (plato) writes:
plato> For example since he has a disagreement with (amongst others)
plato> Apple, he wants to enforce you to not buy Apple computers
plato> or use any of his software.

He wants nothing of the sort.  He does not want "to enforce you" to do
anything regarding Apple.  No one is breaking any heads, literally or
figuratively, to terrorize people into joining the boycott against the
Apple corporate pin-headery.

plato> This may teach stallman to leave the users alone and mind his
plato> own business.

Emacs and the other GNU code _is_ his business; how is any of this not
his business?  He wrote it (not single-handedly, but he is the one
under fire) and corporations like Apple want to prevent him from
writing anything which would mimic the look-and-feel of software which
already exists.  When the objective of the GNU project is to reproduce
a working Unix environment, how can that not be his business?

Dave
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