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- Subject: Re: GCC for Atari
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 10:02:18 -0500 (EST)
- From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
- In-Reply-To: <9403231327.AA09445@star.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> from "itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de" at Mar 23, 94 02:27:12 pm
- Message-Id: <9403231002.ac09699@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
-
- What you wrote:
- >
- > Without wanting to judge anything or express any personal view:
- >
- > > installing it, but the only two reasons I won't install a port at all
- > > are if the paperwork doesn't given clear title to the FSF or if it's
- > > for the Mac since the FSF supports the LPF boycott of Apple.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > Can someone please explain me what THAT means?
-
- The League for Programming Freedom has been boycotting Apple (and the FSF
- has been doing it too) ever since they started hitting on people with
- their "look & feel" lawsuits. People will receive no support trying to
- port or use GNU stuff on Macs, and their changes will not make it into
- the official distributions for anything.
-
- I guess it's working; the only thing (well, other than being broke)
- preventing me from buying a PowerPC-based Mac is the fact that there
- isn't a decent programming environment available. I hate those stupid
- "IDEs" that people use on DOS or OS/2 or the Mac... gimmie make and a
- good shell any day!
-
- Maybe there'll be a PowerPC machine (or MIPS or Dec Alpha) that I can
- run NeXTstep on in the next year or so... *drool* Then there's the
- problem of how much workstations cost... :-(
-
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