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From: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: info-gcc is not a common carrier
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Date: 2 Jun 89 21:05:42 GMT
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My feelings on this are simple. I do not believe announcing a freely
available port to a given workstation environment (A/UX) is either
"hostile commercial activity" or "in support of monopolies on software",
simply because the work was done by an Apple employee. In fact, showing
him hostility seems counter-productive to the goal of encouraging
free software. Remember that ALL computers and operating systems are
are "proprietary platforms". UNIX's "portability" is a myth that ranks
right up there with Apple's "user-friendliness".

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Richard Fozzard					"Serendipity empowers"
University of Colorado			
fozzard@boulder.colorado.edu                   (303)492-8136 or 444-3168