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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.185227.2692@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 18:52:27 GMT
- References: <1992Sep15.033710.13698@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Sep15.042744.1220@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <ROSSINI.92Sep15102354@biosun4.harvard.edu>
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- Here's a question:
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- Why _does_ the FSF allow its software to be ported to Apple machines, even if
- it refuses to do so itself? Why doesn't the GPL contain a statement that
- licenses you to use the program only if you not only make source available
- with binaries, but also agree not to port the program to an Apple machine?
-
- I can think of a number of possible reasons--except that all the reasons I can
- think of would _also_ rule out the boycott of Apple to begin with. I can't
- think of any reasons that would make the FSF allow porting of GNU software to
- Apples _and_ still boycott Apple.
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
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- Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
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