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- From: rossini@biosun4.harvard.edu (Anthony Rossini)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
- Message-ID: <ROSSINI.92Sep15102354@biosun4.harvard.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 14:23:54 GMT
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- In-reply-to: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU's message of 15 Sep 92 04:27:44 GMT
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- Oh, come on. This is getting sick.
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- If you are mad because people aren't creating free software for you, FSF's
- policy gives you the opportunity to take the source and port it to an Apple
- product. If you don't like it the "political agenda" (or a certain subset),
- take the source and port it. If you don't have time or ability, set up an
- Apple-ish FSF, get everyone to donate a few bucks, buy a programmer, and you
- won't have to deal with the parts of the political agenda that you don't
- like. And you will get good software, hopefully. I'm assuming, right or
- wrong, that the basic philosophy of the copyleft is fairly agreeable, even
- if you don't buy into some of the potential ramifications.
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- Isn't the source code enough? If you want handholding, talk to Apple and
- shell out the bucks...
-
- -tony
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