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- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:49:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.194947.3619@kithrup.COM>
- References: <1992Sep15.051438.28757@uwm.edu> <frain.716570605@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> <1992Sep15.181402.6972@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep15.181402.6972@tamsun.tamu.edu> bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu (Brent) writes:
- >I am in full support of what Jerry just said. So to the FSFers that want
- >to claim Apple's making a killing off their machines, check out other
- >companies also. They aren't very different.
-
- Yeah? So?
-
- Stated simply, in deference to you: people (usually) buy machines to run
- software. (Some people buy machines because they are whizzy-bang neat, or
- to develop software, so other people will buy machines to run that software,
- but that is the minority.) Making software available for a machine
- increases the chance that someone will buy that machine, if that software is
- what said person wants. Are you with me so far, or are the words too big
- yet?
-
- Now, since Apple is an evil company, and makes money by selling hardware,
- the best way to encourage Apple's behaviour is to produce software for their
- machines. (Well, not the best way, but it is one of the best ways.)
- Therefore, to dissuade people from buying the machines, not producing
- software for their machines, but for other machines instead, is (hopefully)
- an effective, active boycott. (As opposed to a passive boycott, where one
- just does not purchase any of Apple's machines.)
-
- As for the other companies, none of them is, at least as of yet, a target
- for an FSF boycott, nor do most of them deserve it -- yet.
-
- Why don't you try reading the papers that both the FSF and LPF have written.
- Some of the words in them may have more than two syllables, however, so be
- careful. Maybe you can have a friend help you.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
- sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around."
- -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
-