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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: Apple/Novell merger discussed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.080233.25970@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:02:33 GMT
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- In article <oiNZVB46w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
- >
- >It's going to be technically difficult, not to mention unpopular. When
- >someone says "I'm running GCC on my 386 under Windows, and it's causing my
- >DOS shells to crash", you're going to have to ask him exactly which DOS he
- >bought, and explain that if he bought DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS or PC-DOS or
- >Compaq DOS or whatever, you're going to refuse to help him. You're going to
- >have to ask him if he's running gcc on a Novell Netware fileserver.
-
- Not to mention nonsensical. Already the FSF does not actively port
- GNU software to MS-DOS platforms. This is because that is not their focus
- nor expertise. As far as I can tell, a boycott of MS-DOS by the FSF would
- have a nil effect on the FSF and the GNU project.
-
- >
- >Also, DR-DOS and Netware have a significant share of the market. Such a
- >boycott might actually hurt the FSF.
- >
-
- Significant share? Nobody sells more computers than Apple. Not even IBM.
-
- But, despite this, I still don't see why a boycott of Novell products or
- even the entire MS-DOS SLOPerating system would have any effect on the
- efforts of the FSF.
-
- MS-DOS != the x86 architecture.
-
- "says the man with a very happy Linux system."
- jem.
- >
- >mathew
- >
-
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