Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!vd09+ From: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Programmers should move from mac to NeXT Message-ID: <8bFkIZe00awAA1U1VU@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 18 Nov 90 22:03:17 GMT References: , <126634@tiger.oxy.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: <126634@tiger.oxy.edu> > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.mac.misc: 17-Nov-90 Re: Programmers > should move.. David J. Harr@oxy.edu (1137) > You may not have noticed, but the LPF is not incredibly happy with NeXT > at the moment either. The *OTHER* big company that the LPF doesn't like > is Lotus, but right now, you have Steve Jobs and NeXT climbing into bed > with them and giving out free copies of Improv to everyone who buys a > NeXT before Dec. 31. Richard Stallman has encouraged everyone to *NOT* > buy a NeXT until this promotion is stopped and then tell NeXT why you > waited. Note, I am not sure whether I agree or disagree with LPF vis a > vis Apple and Lotus, but anyone who is preaching NeXT as the new gospel > of the LPF needs to look at the facts a little more. Anyway, for more > info, check out comp.sys.next. I think the thread dealing with this > isssue is still floating around there. That's kind of interesting, especially given that NeXT ships gcc and gdb (and gas?) and gnu emacs, possibly among others, and is (was?) apparently planning to send their Objective-C enhancements back to the FSF for inclusion in gcc 2.0. I wonder what will happen.