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From: kevin%kalli@Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
Newsgroups: gnu.g++
Subject: Re: Porting gcc and g++ to the Macintosh
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Date: 23 May 89 14:48:20 GMT
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In article <8905201657.AA00205@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> rms@AI.MIT.EDU writes:
>I hope no one ports GCC to the Macintosh; but in any case, we will not
>propagate or support such a port.  We are boycotting the Macintosh
>system because of Apple's look-and-feel copyright lawsuit.  This is such
>a great threat to the future of free software that it is essential to
>do everything we can to pressure Apple and form public opinion against
>their demands.
>
>The League for Programming Freedom urges all of you to boycott Apple,
>Lotus and Ashton-Tate by not buying their products, not developing
>software to work with their products, and not working for those
>companies.  

While I agree that Apple's lawyers have severely over-active hormones, and
are probably due for the moral equivalent of castration - is boycott really
the most effective weapon?  I agree that demonstration is a good idea, and
think we should point out to Apple in no uncertain terms how much they've
shot themselves in the foot (why develop when you could get sued?)


However, wouldn't it make sense to move all the FSF stuff over and show
them the error of their ways by example?  Picture the billions of users
out there ready to help you show Apple up...

	l & h,
	kev

Kevin Sheehan
Sun Microsystems