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From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Don't use MPW GCC if you respect RMS's wishes
Message-ID: <7606@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Dec 90 10:41:21 GMT
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In article <32371.27684118@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) writes:

>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. 

	RMS = Richard M. Stallman. (Actually = rms as that's what he
likes to be called.) What RMS actually wants is for companies like Apple
to stop harrassing people in the courts with look and feel lawsuits. By
all means let Apple sell their GUI with their computer but don't let
them stop other people developing theirs.

>Sorry Jack,
>Apple spent oddles of man-years and gazillions of dollars developing the whole
>thing.

	Sorry Lawson, but this just isn't true. Ever heard of PARC?
That's where apple GUI was born. Xerox developed the whole desktop
concept in computing. Apple brought it to the real world. Very few
things in life are the product of one person or company. We all build on
the work of others. If we stop co-operating then we all lose big.
	Tony



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Tony Cunningham, Edinburgh University Computing Service. tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk

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