🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9212190609.AA14495@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
>Apple's look and feel lawsuit attacks the freedom of programmers
>generally.  Today's suit has just two defendants, but indirectly it
>attacks all of us.
>
>You appear to work at Apple.  Whether or not you personally support
>the lawsuit, to help you install GCC on a machine at your office (at
>Apple, it would seem) would be directly helping Apple business.  I
>sometimes do favors for strangers, but not for strangers like Apple
>that are trying to hurt me.  I hope other readers feel the same.
>
>I am sending this message because (1) perhaps you personally don't
>realize what a bad thing your employer is doing, and (2) perhaps some
>of the other readers don't realize either.
>
>Perhaps you personally don't approve of Apple's lawsuit.  If so, you
>can show you really mean it by starting a political discussion of
>whether it is unethical and whether Apple is morally obligated to stop
>it.  This requires some courage--management will order you to stop,
>and you will have to refuse on the grounds that everyone has a duty to
>consider an issue of conscience--but showing courage is what can
>demonstrate that people should not blame you for what Apple does.
>
>
>Those readers who think they are allowed to write programs and won't
>get sued for doing so, should read the information published by the
>LPF about the danger of monopolies in software.  Then, if they'd like
>something to be done about the problem, they can join the LPF.
>
>The League for Programming Freedom is an organization that works to
>protect programmers' freedom to write software, opposing enforced
>monopolies such as Apple wants to create.  The LPF is not a free
>software organization and is not related to the GNU project.
>
>More information about the LPF is available in the directory doc/lpf
>on ftp.uu.net.  To contact the LPF, send mail to lpf@uunet.uu.net.
>
>You too can join the LPF; some Apple employees are already members.

RMS should know that there IS renewed interest in gcc at Apple.