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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Don't use MPW GCC if you respect RMS's wishes
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Date: 13 Dec 90 14:08:42 GMT
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Stephen Hite writes in a message to All

SH> It should be no surprise to anyone that yours is faster and GCC 
SH> is more robust (hint: RMS didn't get his recent "genious grant" 
SH> for his politics or hairstyle) :-) :-

SH> That is, internally, if higher level management learns that its 
SH> own employees are distributing a file that recommends to others 
SH> to boycott Apple (i.e. gcc-info file) then someone's butt is 
SH> going to get chewed.

Who IS this RMS person? And why does he hate Apple? It sounds like someone that
believes that the GUI that Apple created should be public domain. Sorry Jack,
Apple spent oddles of man-years and gazillions of dollars developing the whole
thing. The courts (in my understanding) said that Apple had a prior agreement
with MicroSoft to allow them use of the GUI, not that GUI's weren't protectable.
 

Rant, rant, rave, etc.

Lawson (former Apple stockholder)
 

 

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