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In article <ABRAHAM.91Oct28223144@freja.iesd.auc.dk> abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:

   From: abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen)
   Date: 28 Oct 91 22:31:44 GMT


   >>>>> On 28 Oct 91 16:58:12 GMT, charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles
   >>>>> Geyer) said:

   charlie> Why outrageous?  Apple is a terrorist organization.  They use lawyers
   charlie> instead of guns, but what's the difference?

	   |	Apple	     |	Terrorist     | FSF
   --------+--------------------+----------------+------------------
   Goal	|	Profit	     |  More  Freedom |	More Freedom
   --------+--------------------|----------------+------------------
   Effect	|	Less Fredom  |	Less Freedom  |	More Freedom
	   |	(lawyer prog)|	(police state)|	(free software)
   --------+--------------------+----------------+------------------
   Mean	|	Non violent  |	Violent	      |	Non violent
	   |	(lawyers)    |	(guns)	      |	(software)


You forgot:					boycott of innocent USERS
						closed-mindedness due to
						  rabid desire to be
						  politically correct at
						  at the expense of primary
						  goal (producing software)
						censorship
						double standards

Apple has become a symbol of the evil empire to the FSF.  I don't deal
with symbols,  I deal with reality.  I still stand behind my words at
the GNU BOF 3 years ago.  Hurting people to strengthen an ideal is
evil.  As evil as using lawyers to try to gain a competitive advantage
over your peers.

Why not boycott Digital and IBM?  Both companies are actively involved
in generating as many patents as possible to use as trading chips for
suits and countersuits against others in industry?  How do I know
this?  I work for Digital's Western Research Lab and recently fought
against the system.

The fight against Apple is not worth the collateral dammage.  People
are going religious over this thing and it's disgusting.