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In article <oiNZVB46w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
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>It's going to be technically difficult, not to mention unpopular.  When
>someone says "I'm running GCC on my 386 under Windows, and it's causing my
>DOS shells to crash", you're going to have to ask him exactly which DOS he
>bought, and explain that if he bought DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS or PC-DOS or
>Compaq DOS or whatever, you're going to refuse to help him.  You're going to
>have to ask him if he's running gcc on a Novell Netware fileserver.

Not to mention nonsensical.  Already the FSF does not actively port 
GNU software to MS-DOS platforms.  This is because that is not their focus
nor expertise.  As far as I can tell, a boycott of MS-DOS by the FSF would
have a nil effect on the FSF and the GNU project.

>
>Also, DR-DOS and Netware have a significant share of the market.  Such a
>boycott might actually hurt the FSF.
>

Significant share? Nobody sells more computers than Apple. Not even IBM.

But, despite this, I still don't see why a boycott of Novell products or
even the entire MS-DOS SLOPerating system would have any effect on the 
efforts of the FSF.  

MS-DOS != the x86 architecture.

"says the man with a very happy Linux system."
jem.
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>mathew
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