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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: GNU C++ for the Macintosh?
- Message-ID: <D2150035.cllrbx@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 04:41:15 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <1992Sep2.231352.24599@tamsun.tamu.edu> (comp.sys.mac.programmer), bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu (Brent) writes:
- > cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton) writes:
- > |In article <pyknjaa.nagle@netcom.com>, nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) wrote:
- > |>
- > |> GNU C++ is not available for the Macintosh for religious reasons.
- > |> Details in "gnu.misc.discuss".
- > |
- > |Bzzzt. Wrong. g++ is available for MPW and can be found on ftp.apple.com.
- >
- > I wouldn't bzzzt John just yet. Here's the scoop (as I understand it):
- >
- > The GNU people who put g++ out support these
- > 40+ machines/architectures/OSs. They will not formally support the
- > Mac for, as John put it, their religious reasons. In fact, they discourage
- > anybody to port their stuff to any of Apple's machines.
- >
- > This doesn't mean you can't get stuff to run on macs; there isn't some
- > CrashIfMac() function hidden in there somewhere (although Stallman
- > might support this). I tend to think, as others do, that the GNU's
- > boycott is in contrast to their main goal: to provide freely distributable
- > software.
- >
- > This has been debated before on gnu.misc.discuss.
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- Isn't it about time they drop their boycott now that the Apple lawsuit
- is over and Apple lost?
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