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- From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Concerns about the FSF and the GNU project
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.070343.29009@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 07:03:43 GMT
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- The way I see this issue is as follows: If FSF/LPF fails to contact Clinton
- and appraise him of the Apple situation, then the boycott is a weak excercise
- in passive resistance that will cease to be weak _only_ if the general public
- (_outside_ of the net, you know, John and Jane Q. Public) is made aware of
- it. If you want my vote (this goes for the Green Party in america as well),
- _obtain political visibility_. Otherwise, I will have about as much sympathy
- for the needs of FSF/LPF as their boycott has towards myself and other Mac
- developers and users.
-
- I own a mac as well, but don't have a NeXT or Sun or ATT/Unix box or much
- of anything else besides an old IMSAI S-100 box; I intend to port GNU to it
- if just to have a solid way of porting apps away from it, however, like
- Jurgen Botz, I like my mac which means that porting things away will not
- be its only use.
-
- Apple's port of GCC for MPW limits it to produce code only for the mac and
- prevents it from becoming a cross compiler; my port will be _much_ more
- useful since it will be cross-capable as originally intended and the compiler
- itself will be unmodified so as to make trivial the incorporation of future
- versions of GCC. (Apple, in its finite wisdom chose to modify the compiler
- itself to produce code for a limited assembler that is dumb about variable
- references, namely MPW Assembler.)
-
- In summary, _please_ contact Clinton! I'm all for freedom for programmers,
- however I am excercising mine now.
-