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- From: tariqh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Tariq Hamid)
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- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.000239.11451@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 00:02:39 GMT
- References: <01050133.ksdp2c@distant.uucp> <1992Dec11.195344.10218@reed.edu> <1992Dec11.155851.14862@walter.cray.com> <1gb6n9INNpmk@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec16.132756.20642@gssec.bt.co.uk> <lsr-181292122440@lsr.taligent.com>
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- In <lsr-181292122440@lsr.taligent.com> lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
-
- >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
-
- Rubbish. The GCC compiler is available for the IBM PC, et al. And this version
- in particular is _excellent_ e.g. it supports 128Mbytes of virtual memory.
-
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