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- From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Subject: Re: MPW stuff on ftp.apple.com
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.024150.1262@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <BRAD.93Jan12142754@wendel.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:41:50 GMT
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- In article <BRAD.93Jan12142754@wendel.jpl.nasa.gov> brad@wendel.jpl.nasa.gov (Brad Pickering) writes:
- >The reason I ask is because if we successfully get a free C compiler
- >working that was compatable with the c includes and the libraries, we
- >could use these files from ftp.apple.com instead of having to create
- >our own. Doesn't this bother Apple?
-
- As far as I understand, Apple is not in the compiler/development tools
- business. They do it only to support developers so that their real
- customers would have software to run on the machines that they buy from
- Apple.
-
- They might loose some money that they would otherwise make from selling
- MPW C, but they'll gain it back by selling more machines.
-
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- Juri Munkki Windsurf: fast sailing
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