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In article <9201211550.AA04654@pop-tarts>,
 tower@ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
> The GNU Project prefers that it's mailing lists and newsgroups not be
> used to help port software to Apple Computers.
> [mucho stuff deleted]

To be honest, I think it was a little unfair to:

a) Post this well-distributed GNU rant about Apple to this group - anyone
   who has a decent set of GNU utilities has seen that message plenty of
   times already.

b) Post it to the group simply because someone had problems compiling GNU
   Chess on a Macintosh ! I could equally post a rant about how garbage
   MS-DOS PC's EVERY TIME someone wants help on compiling GNU Chess for PCs,
   but I don't - simply because it's very bad net etiquette indeed and I'd
   become very unpopular very quickly.

Are we going to be subjected to this GNU rant every time any Apple product
is mentioned in any GNU group ? I surely hope not. Personally, I find GNU's
attitude towards Apple nearly as bad as Apple's "look-and-feel" lawsuit
fiasco. To me, it really does go against the whole "Free Software Foundation"
idea - FSF: as long as you don't upset us ! Very fascistic indeed !

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