Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Gnu C Compiler for MPW Unchained! Message-ID: <1990Dec11.210748.29010@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 11 Dec 90 21:07:48 GMT References: <46962@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at U-C Lines: 23 >GNU boycott (as I have heard it explained) is a request for people not to >encourage or support the use GNU software on Apple hardware. It's more than that. Stallman wants no one to buy or use any Apple equipment for any purpose. If Apple has what's best for you, he suggests you wait until somebody else provides it. He also wants everyone to boycott NeXT until the offer for a free copy of Lotus' spreadsheet expires. So far as I know, he has nothing against Decwriters and PDP-11's. Free software is fine (I produce some). But somebody's gotta pay the bills, too, and I think it's very naive to expect lots of good software to be written without compensation. I think that's called "communism", and I don't think anyone anywhere has made it work. I also think it's ridiculous to try to copyright a trash can. -- -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner