🚀 go-pugleaf

In <2k4dua$5od@samba.oit.unc.edu> Larry.Baxter@launchpad.unc.edu (Laurence T. Baxter) writes:

>In article <2jdp0k$icj@news.kth.se>,
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>Why should Mac users/chess fans get caught in the middle of your
>crusade against interface infringements?!

The FSF support the boycott.

>  I have really enjoyed 
>Gnuchess on the Mac, but the Version 3 I have is definitely showing signs of
>age -- tends to choke & die when it gets mated, won't recognize the 
>human player's en-passant, and has a small opening book.  Isn't there
>any interest out there about porting a newer version, *OR* at least
>getting a larger opening book for the Mac?

The FSF will not support the Mac.
Have you even tried to ask Apple if they could stop this
look&feel thing?

>  (I do have a newer version
>on my Sun, which does run much faster & has a great opening repetoire)

>(Feel free to avoid porting such programs yourself, but I'm casting
>my vote against this boycott :-)

Not only do I avoid porting programs to Apple computers. I try
to dissuade those who would.

Ask Apple what it would take for them to give up on look&feel.
-- 
Urban Koistinen - md85-epi@nada.kth.se
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