Re: looking for configuration files (really: LPF boycott of Apple)

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From: Bill Johnston
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1991 16:50

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In article <9110261741.AA28922@wheat-chex>, tower@prep.ai.mit.edu writes...

>   >The Free Software Foundation is a participant in a boycott of Apple

>BTW, I know of no one involved with the boycott who isn't sadden by
>it's effects on Apple's customers.  But the harm being done to the
>general public is far greater.

This is the part that confuses me.  To the best of my knowledge, 
the LPF/FSF boycott has had no effect on Apple or its customers.  

If anything, the fact of the boycott has resulted in greater effort 
being made to port GNU software to the Macintosh, which might 
otherwise not have been done because of the effort required to
add a Mac interface and Mac Toolbox calls to someone else's code.

-- Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)

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