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From: chase@Ozona.orc.olivetti.com (David Chase)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: GNU's not GNU...
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Date: 28 Mar 89 21:59:21 GMT
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In article <8903282016.AA00479@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) writes:
>Would you please not waste people's time on info-gcc discussing the
>technical merits or lack thereof of various proprietary operating systems?

Fine.  How about you reply to the rest of the posting? (and I got your
letter, anyway -- the newsgroup duplicate was a waste of people's time
and net bandwidth.  Tsk, tsk.)

Why Apple?  As has been pointed out, other companies have sought to
creatively interpret intellectual property law to remain sole (and
thus high-priced) vendors of equipment or software.  What rule should
I follow to decide if you might choose not to do business with the
company for which I work?  I can't see one right now, and I can think
of several reasonable-sounding rules which you definitely aren't
following.  Check your list of contributors carefully before you throw
stones at Apple.

David