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Article #1756Re: FSF vs Apple -- please think again
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:09
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:09
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In article <1993Jan12.173830.18153@ornl.gov> de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
>The goal of the boycott is to not waste FSF resources supporting a company
>with particularly anti-FSF business practices. The goal is not to cause
>Apple grief.
I don't think this is true. If it were, the FSF wouldn't try to convince
others not to port their software to the Mac, since that doesn't use FSF
resources.
The goal of the boycott is to convince Apple to change its practices. The
hope is that some users will choose not to purchase Apple computers because
GNU software isn't available for it, and other users will choose not to
purchase Apple computers because they are actively participating in the
boycott.
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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