Re: Apple attacks Intel and Microsoft ?

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From: Jurgen Botz
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:06

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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950214220532.5346A-100000@rocky>,
James Ogden  <ez050615@peseta.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>And i was just going to ask if anyone thought that GNU's ban of Appple 
>might be lifted...  i guess not.

The LPF, and consequently the FSF, have in fact officially stopped
boycotting Apple according to the January GNUs bulletin.  The given
reason is not a change in attitude by Apple, but a realization that a
boycott is no longer a useful tactic.

Anyway, the LPF boycott of Apple was over the issue of "look and feel
copyrights" whereas the Quicktime thing is a plain old source-code
copyright issue.  The LPF believes in source-code copyrights, and the
FSF copyrights their source code.  Whether Apple's claims about
Quicktime have any merit is for a court to decide but in the meantime
this is not in ideological conflict with the LPF or FSF.

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From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
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Subject: Re: Apple attacks Intel and Microsoft ?
Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:06:26 GMT
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