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From: ron@afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: GNU - FSF against A/UX !!
Keywords: GNU, FSF, A/UX, emacs
Message-ID: <441@afsg.apple.com>
Date: 2 Sep 90 19:03:53 GMT
References: <356@public.BTR.COM>
Reply-To: ron@afsg.UUCP (Ron Flax)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Apple Federal Systems Group
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In article <356@public.BTR.COM> pke@public.BTR.COM (Peter Espen pke@btr.com) writes:
>Subject: GNU under A/UX 2.0 ???
>From: rms@AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
>
>The FSF is not going to support any software on AUX because of the
>danger posed to future free software development by Apple's lawsuit.
>
>  Apple is paying a price for it's lawsuit!  Any comments??
>

Not really.. most of the necessary GNU software has been successfully
ported to A/UX (emacs, gcc, g++, gdb) and is available for anonymous
ftp on the internet.  You just can't get it from FSF.. but it's still
available and in just as good shape as that which one might get from
FSF directly.

>Peter Espen
>pke@btr.com

Ron Flax
ron@afsg.apple.com