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- From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Help!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.203058.17004@netcom.com>
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- References: <9212172232.AA00208@apple.com> <9212190609.AA14495@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 20:30:58 GMT
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- In article <9212190609.AA14495@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
- >Apple's look and feel lawsuit attacks the freedom of programmers
- >generally. Today's suit has just two defendants, but indirectly it
- >attacks all of us.
- >
- >You appear to work at Apple. Whether or not you personally support
- >the lawsuit, to help you install GCC on a machine at your office (at
- >Apple, it would seem) would be directly helping Apple business. I
- >sometimes do favors for strangers, but not for strangers like Apple
- >that are trying to hurt me. I hope other readers feel the same.
- >
- >I am sending this message because (1) perhaps you personally don't
- >realize what a bad thing your employer is doing, and (2) perhaps some
- >of the other readers don't realize either.
- >
- >Perhaps you personally don't approve of Apple's lawsuit. If so, you
- >can show you really mean it by starting a political discussion of
- >whether it is unethical and whether Apple is morally obligated to stop
- >it. This requires some courage--management will order you to stop,
- >and you will have to refuse on the grounds that everyone has a duty to
- >consider an issue of conscience--but showing courage is what can
- >demonstrate that people should not blame you for what Apple does.
- >
- >
- >Those readers who think they are allowed to write programs and won't
- >get sued for doing so, should read the information published by the
- >LPF about the danger of monopolies in software. Then, if they'd like
- >something to be done about the problem, they can join the LPF.
- >
- >The League for Programming Freedom is an organization that works to
- >protect programmers' freedom to write software, opposing enforced
- >monopolies such as Apple wants to create. The LPF is not a free
- >software organization and is not related to the GNU project.
- >
- >More information about the LPF is available in the directory doc/lpf
- >on ftp.uu.net. To contact the LPF, send mail to lpf@uunet.uu.net.
- >
- >You too can join the LPF; some Apple employees are already members.
-
- RMS should know that there IS renewed interest in gcc at Apple.
-