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In article <PST.91Oct29212804@nessus.Shockwave.COM> pst@Shockwave.COM (Paul Traina) writes:

   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.


What else is done by the LPF besides boycotting Apple for changing their
politics? A boycott is only useful if other actions have failed! I am an
Apple user and I'm not willing to support the LPF on boycotting Apple.
Some postings so far have been very childish (calling Apple a terrorist
organisation is sick - come on, think first before you post :-). There
*are* some reasons being dissatisfied with the way Apple tries to save their
investments. But making foolish statements isn't a big help.

Maybe the LPF should talk directly with Apple representatives before
calling for a boycott. Has this been done? Why do I see so many GUIs
around, beside Apple's (Dynamic Windows, OpenWindows, Motif, ...)?
Apple's lawyers must be very wealthy if Apple is sueing them all?
There are so many ways to have a GUI and *not* being a Macintosh lookalike.

By the way, I do like some FSF products like GNU EMACS (which I am using
now) but it would be *very* difficult to port them to MAC OS with a
conformant user interface. So it seems to be easy to boycott Apple.
Nobody is really hurt. 

Well, that's my personal view (I hope so :-).

Rainer Joswig