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From: slavitch@spock (Michael Slavitch)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Help request from Apple Special Projects
Message-ID: <5301@earth>
Date: 13 Nov 90 14:22:25 GMT
References: <9011122252.AA21464@mole.ai.mit.edu>
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In-reply-to: rms@AI.MIT.EDU's message of 12 Nov 90 22:52:32 GMT

In article <9011122252.AA21464@mole.ai.mit.edu> rms@AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) writes:

| Today someone from Apple asked for help.  I think it's likely that his
| Sun 4 is located at Apple and is being used for Apple business.
|
| I don't think that a look and feel plaintiff like Apple deserves our
| help.  If you agree, I suggest you disregard his message.

You are not nessesarily helping Apple by helping some grunt software
developer get his job done in less than the 60 hour week demanded by the
management there. You are helping him get his work done so he can get home
once in a while. This boycott is turning into a cold war against people, not
corporations. And it is becoming annoying. He probably isn't too happy about
Apple policy, but he still has to pay the rent/mortgage/grocery bill.

If you REALLY want to piss Apple off, don't preach to the converted. Find
some born-in-a-suit type to press the flesh with media types such as the
news hounds at the major networks or CNN. A hungry news media getting bored
with the Persian Gulf Cookout may see you thing as a cause such as the Big
Green thing a while ago. The only reason Big Green lost is because the "Pro"
movement was unrelentant and noncompromising.

Give them the "innovator eats its young" thing and media types will lap it
it up, but only if it in terms that they understand. (THIS IS A COMPUTER.
THIS IS A LAWYER. THE LAWYER WANTS TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR
COMPUTER.) Make it a civil liberty thing and hope to get the ACLU involved.
Show these slickers a bunch of bearded 40 year olds in t-shirts and they'll
think you're nothing but a bunch of 'communists' with an ax to grind.
They're a simple lot, but they are powerful. Look at your election and think
about how it was won.


| For more information on the issues behind the boycott of Lotus and
| Apple, contact league@prep.ai.mit.edu.

Don't tell me, tell CBS!

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