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In <lsr-181292122440@lsr.taligent.com> lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:

>In article <1992Dec16.132756.20642@gssec.bt.co.uk>, agauld@gssec.bt.co.uk
>(Alan Gauld) wrote:
>> 
>> around)... Since Apple are thus hindering development of quality software he
>> doesn't believe they should be able to use "his" (ie GNU) software. I'm not

>We're both putting words into his mouth, but I think he objects to
>supporting Apple hardware and he also encourages people not to purchase
>Apple products, not to work for Apple, etc.  

>> sure I agree with him but I do respect his views and ponder the morality of
>> porting GNU stuff to Apple platforms when the authors would rather it wasn't
>> done... Shouldn't the "porter" just go out and write his own?

>Perhaps that's true.  But there's a conflict in that his approach is that
>the software should be unencumbered so that anyone can do anything s/he
>wants with it and that all changes should be equally unencumbered.  So by
>that philosophy, it's perfectly reasonable for people to port it to the
>Mac.

>Even if there wasn't a boycott against Apple the GNU software (especially
>GCC) wouldn't be ported to the Mac OS as a matter of course simply because
>their focus is Unix-like machines and it's relatively hard to port some of
>the software to the Mac.

>Larry Rosenstein
>Taligent, Inc.

>lsr@taligent.com

Rubbish. The GCC compiler is available for the IBM PC, et al. And this version 
in particular is _excellent_ e.g. it supports 128Mbytes of virtual memory.

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