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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: The boycott moves forward
Message-ID: <9412@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 6 Jun 89 13:56:26 GMT
References: <8906021909.AA00268@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
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In article <8906021909.AA00268@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> rms@AI.MIT.EDU writes:
>
>I agree that my stubborn refusal to cooperate with a project, such as
>porting GCC to AU/X, is a form of hostilities.  If I treated innocent
>people that way, it would be wrong.

Users who bought Apple systems a while back ARE innocent (surely you 
don't expect them to have predicted the future).  You are treating 
innocent people that way and it is wrong.  

>However, treating aggressors this way is justified and necessary. 

Not if you are hurting innocent people in the process.  Find other ways to
do what you want (I think this one is doing you more harm than good).


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