Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Gnu C Compiler for MPW Unchained! Message-ID: <1990Dec5.202855.6434@eng.umd.edu> Date: 5 Dec 90 20:28:55 GMT References: <46962@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 28 In article brianj@witsend.cs.umd.edu (Brian Johnson) writes: >This seems like a terrible shame. I love my mac, and would very much >like to have all of my favorite gnu (unix version) utilities. But, I >think most of us (and especially apple folk) know the Gnu "boycott >apple" position. > >Are we taking advantage of the Free Software Foundation? I think >YES:-( > >FSF promotes open systems, apple doesn't (I know I've paid my R&D >overhead to get the proprietary mac os). > >It bothers me to see FSF software on apple.com. It's like beating Ghandi with >his own stick because you can. FSF would be trying to have it's cake and eat it too. You can't support the principle that 'software should be free', and then object when someone else takes your software and does something you don't like to it (like making a version for the Evil Company Of The Year). You can't say that "Software should be free, except for supporters of Evil Company", and expect to get any recognition. To it's credit, FSF has not (to my knowledge) tried to stop porting of their software to Apple machines, it has only withheld it's support. (and they don't seem to have 'Support should be free' as part of their philosophy) -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.