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Subject: Protect Your Freedom--Boycott Apple
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Date: 24 May 89 02:13:16 GMT
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I urge everyone reading these words: if you love the GNU project or
GNU software, don't cooperate with Apple's use of GCC, and don't use
Macintoshes with or without GCC.  

You may have noticed a gloating tone in Berry's announcement.  The
reason he is gloating is because he turned the GNU project's own
mailing list toward the end of prohibiting free software.

Perhaps that sounds preposterous, but it is no exaggeration.  Berry's
boss is suing people for developing upward-compatible replacement
software--exactly what we do.  If they win, most of the free software
that the GNU project will want to do in the future will become
illegal.  

To fight their efforts, we have urged a boycott of Apple.  Berry hopes
to undermine our efforts at self defense by posting advertisements for
Apple on our own list--by using it to make contact with Apple
customers.  

Apparently, Berry believes that the readers of this list are
short-sighted, and would prefer the temporary benefit of using GCC on
a Macintosh to the long term benefits possible from continued
development of a wide variety of free software.  He believes that you
crave GCC on Macintoshes so badly that you would not wish to protect
the source that gave you GCC, so it can give you something else
tomorrow.  He believes that you don't have the courage to make a
sacrifice to preserve your freedom.  

Now it's up to you to show him, unmistakably, how wrong he is!