Re: "official" FSF position on apple

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From: Sean Eric Fagan
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 19:27

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In article <1992Sep27.173842.17544@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> sjg@dogmatix.ph.kcl.ac.uk (Simon Gornall) writes:
>Yup - and also those Atari-ST users who run Spectre GCR. They're probably
>the largest group
>of Mac cloners.

Uhm, those aren't clones, those are still based on Apple's equipment.

A clone would not contain any of Apple's code or hardware, just as the IBM
PC clones do not contain any of IBM's code or hardware.  A "true clone" (in
my book) would be one that didn't license any software (patents, interface
rights) from Apple.

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Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
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