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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: FSF vs Apple -- please think again
- Date: 13 Jan 1993 04:09:40 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1993Jan12.161116.4263@maths.tcd.ie> <1993Jan12.173830.18153@ornl.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan12.173830.18153@ornl.gov> de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
- >The goal of the boycott is to not waste FSF resources supporting a company
- >with particularly anti-FSF business practices. The goal is not to cause
- >Apple grief.
-
- I don't think this is true. If it were, the FSF wouldn't try to convince
- others not to port their software to the Mac, since that doesn't use FSF
- resources.
-
- The goal of the boycott is to convince Apple to change its practices. The
- hope is that some users will choose not to purchase Apple computers because
- GNU software isn't available for it, and other users will choose not to
- purchase Apple computers because they are actively participating in the
- boycott.
-
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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