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- From: Annius Groenink <Annius.Groenink@let.ruu.nl>
- Subject: Re: GCC for Atari
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 12:17:00 +0100 (MET)
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9403231412.B22718-0100000@acf4.NYU.EDU> from "wisej" at Mar 23, 94 02:50:10 pm
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- > > 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.
- > >
- > A boycott which has outlived its purpose. Apple has changed leadership
- > twice since the boycott began, has stopped throwing around such lawsuits
- > (There are now mac emulators for DOS, atari (?), amiga, SUN, and NeXT),
- > and as of three weeks ago, has agreed to license the Mac OS. The time
- > has come for the boycott to END.
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- If I had known more about GNU when I decided to go for Atari, I'd probably
- have chosen for the Mac so as to avoid any contact with the junk.
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- Sorry, no time to write more. My Pure C compiler doesn't supply me with as
- much time for mailing around during compiler jobs as your GCC does...
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