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- From: rossini@biosun4.harvard.edu (Anthony Rossini)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: FSF vs Apple -- please think again
- Message-ID: <ROSSINI.93Jan12202736@biosun4.harvard.edu>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 01:27:36 GMT
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- In-reply-to: hanche@ams.sunysb.edu's message of 12 Jan 93 19:26:20 GMT
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- Exactly -- if you want the software, write it. Or buy it from someone. Or
- form your own corporation (I've always wondered a "Public Domain Software
- Foundation" would be like), write a manifesto, and get people to donate
- time/money into getting software that you like. Just because hackers don't
- like your machine or the company that makes it is no reason to attack them,
- especially since they aren't attacking you (unless you feel that just
- because it isn't written for YOUR machine, means that you are being
- attacked). So if you stop complaining and start coding, maybe you can get
- the software up and running on a Mac...
-
- Sorry, but I thought it was obvious...
- (And yes, I do use a Mac from time to time, and suffer from the dearth of my
- favorite editor...)
-
- -tony
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