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From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: GNU - FSF against A/UX !!
Keywords: GNU, FSF, A/UX, emacs
Message-ID: <57245@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 90 16:14:42 GMT
References: <356@public.BTR.COM> <441@afsg.apple.com> <456@adiron.UUCP>
Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <456@adiron.UUCP> richf@adiron.UUCP (Rick Fanta) writes:
>ron@afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax) writes:
>
>>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??
|||

Kind of an interesting concept of *free* - free unless I don't like
your policies.  I don't imagine Stallman sees the irony, but he is
of course entitled to his position.

||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
|
|
|Slimeball companies stop at nothing.  How can you (with a clear conscience)
|port GNU software?  If Apple is going to continue with "Sadaam Hussein-like"
|lawsuits (I stole it fair and square, therefore it's mine) it has no business
|with any FSF product!

The Apple-Microsoft lawsuit is not about who stole the interface, that is
an issue between Xerox and Apple.  It is a *fact* that Microsoft signed
a licensing agreement with Apple - at issue is what the agreement covers.

|
|May the source be with you!
|
|Death to slimeball software hoarders and their legions of lawyers!

I hope you avoid Lotus products, too.  They've actually won a lawsuit
on "look and feel".  IBM and just about everyone else are also willing
to sue over these issues.  How do you feel about Intel's suit with AMD
over the 80x86/80x87 chips?  If we were to boycott every company that
sues over any issue we'd have almost no software, but it wouldn't
matter, because we'd have to boycott all the hardware, too.

|
|After the revolution, things will be different!

Kind of hostile, it seems to me.

Is he implying that all software should be free?  If so, I'm not
sure many of us could make a living at it.

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|Rick Fanta
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James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth

Deleted multiple, incredibly legalistic disclaimers, which ultimately
boil down to the fact that I speak only for myself.