Re: FSF won't help Apple (Re: Newsgroups closed)

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From: Clinton Jeffery
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1991 21:16

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From article <go2o62w164w@mantis.co.uk>, by mathew@mantis.co.uk:
> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>> ...IBM is holding hands with Apple (and has lots of software patents)...
> Just because IBM are friends with Apple and Apple are evil doesn't
> *necessarily* mean IBM is evil.  I don't think IBM are doing anything much to
> directly assist Apple as yet.

That's funny, I've always thought of IBM as a sort of a paragon of Evil...
dogged proponents of closed systems running closed software in a closet for
decades before caving in to the inexorable "open" trend of today.  But IBM
did create an "open" PC, and for better or for worse, millions of ISA 386
boxes (from many vendors) are one of the largest groups of people with
systems capable of meeting GNU's minimum hardware requirements.  Not
supporting Microchannel because IBM tried to keep it closed would be one
thing, but not supporting ISA and EISA would be a BAD mistake.  I admit
my views are biased.  Sorry.

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