Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!agate!shelby!neon!pescadero.Stanford.EDU!philip From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Programmers should move from mac to NeXT Message-ID: <1990Nov14.184025.22185@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 14 Nov 90 18:40:25 GMT References: Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Reply-To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 15 In article , anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen R. Anderson) writes: [League for Programming Freedom stuff]: |> viable alternative that programmers should embrace and encourage, the |> NeXT. Support your right to develop the best programs you can: move |> from the monopolistic mac to the NeXT. I don't want to enter into the debate about whether LPF's boycott Apple strategy is right / effective, but I wonder if NeXT is really in the LPF camp. If you develop a NeXT application, and port it to another machine, including copying the "look and feel" WITHOUT using a licenced version of NeXTstep, what will NeXT's response be? They aren't giving their interface technology away - it is rumoured to have cost IBM millions. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu