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- From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:05:02 EST
- Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc.
- Message-ID: <1CE00001.lc0ae7@tbomb.ice.com>
- Reply-To: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
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- In article <1992Dec16.132756.20642@gssec.bt.co.uk> (comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer), agauld@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Gauld) writes:
- > >.... Also, a port of gcc 2.x is in the works (not through GNU since
- > > R. Stallman doesn't like the Mac...) and that'll run under MPW.
- > A small point but I don't think Stallman has anything against Macs.
- > Its Apple he doesn't like (and anyone else who throws copyright suits
- > around)... Since Apple are thus hindering development of quality software he
- > doesn't believe they should be able to use "his" (ie GNU) software. I'm not
- > sure I agree with him but I do respect his views and ponder the morality of
- > porting GNU stuff to Apple platforms when the authors would rather it wasn't
- > done... Shouldn't the "porter" just go out and write his own?
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- And maybe Stahllman (and you) should re-read his own GNU manifesto.
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- I can see him putting Macs at the bottom of the porting list.
- I can see him LOUDLY stating his grievances about Apple.
- I can see him not buying or accepting Macs.
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- Calling into moral question the action of porting GNU code to the
- Mac is ridiculous. Calling GNU software "his" is even more absurd.
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