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- From: lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein)
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:29:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.132756.20642@gssec.bt.co.uk>, agauld@gssec.bt.co.uk
- (Alan Gauld) wrote:
- >
- > 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
-
- We're both putting words into his mouth, but I think he objects to
- supporting Apple hardware and he also encourages people not to purchase
- Apple products, not to work for Apple, etc.
-
- > 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?
-
- Perhaps that's true. But there's a conflict in that his approach is that
- the software should be unencumbered so that anyone can do anything s/he
- wants with it and that all changes should be equally unencumbered. So by
- that philosophy, it's perfectly reasonable for people to port it to the
- Mac.
-
- Even if there wasn't a boycott against Apple the GNU software (especially
- GCC) wouldn't be ported to the Mac OS as a matter of course simply because
- their focus is Unix-like machines and it's relatively hard to port some of
- the software to the Mac.
-
- Larry Rosenstein
- Taligent, Inc.
-
- lsr@taligent.com
-