Re: gcc for the mac?

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From: Bob Pasker
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:13

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jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch) writes:
>Unless you can find a way to get apple to 1) stop making software patents,
>2) stop suing on the basis of look-and-feel and 3) make a commitment that
>they won't ever do it again, there will be no ports of GCC to the Macintosh
>supported by GCC's authors. Even if apple does all three above, there _still_
>might not be an officially supported port.

is this because the FSF people believe that they will get sued for 
porting it or because the FSF want to punish apple?


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