Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!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: <1990Dec12.154832.5894@eng.umd.edu> Date: 12 Dec 90 15:48:32 GMT References: <1990Dec11.210748.29010@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 28 In article <1990Dec11.210748.29010@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >>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. Yawn. If Stallman was to boycott every company which had something to do with a company that did things he didn't like, he would quickly find he had no equipment he could use. >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. No, communism is when you put a gun to someones head and force them to write software without compensation above that needed to keep you alive. I think rms et al have shown that lots of good software can be written without compensation, though I'd love to know how they do it... -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.