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  2. From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
  3. Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
  4. Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep15.194156.25683@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  6. Date: 15 Sep 92 19:41:56 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep15.042744.1220@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <ROSSINI.92Sep15102354@biosun4.harvard.edu> <1992Sep15.185227.2692@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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  12. In article <1992Sep15.185227.2692@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
  13. arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes: 
  14. #Why _does_ the FSF allow its software to be ported to Apple machines, even if
  15. #it refuses to do so itself?
  16.  
  17. Because restricing the distribution of code is what the FSF is
  18. fighting for. 
  19.  
  20. Because the FSF is one of the few organizations that still recognize
  21. the difference between forbidding someone from doing something, and
  22. not helping somebody do something.
  23.  
  24. --
  25. -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia
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