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Article #74387Re: Illogic
From: Richard Caley
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 19:05
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 19:05
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In article <13247@goofy.Apple.COM>, Stan Shebs (ss) writes: ss> I suspected something like this for quite a while - the Apple boycott was ss> prompted more by convenience than by principle. If all you are saying is that they chose to use what influence they might have in the place where it looked like it would have the most good, then I think they would take that as a complement. If you mean they chose a target which causes them least problems just to make a noise you are obviously off in cloud cookoo land. For instacne it would be much easier to boycot, say, Hoover not many people using Hoover hardware to run gcc :-) -- rjc@cstr.ed.ac.uk It may be buggy, it may be MS-Dross, it may be documented in Dutch, but at least it doesn't try to be cute.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,47b7044c222bdb12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-02 11:06:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!aipna!cstr!rjc From: rjc@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Illogic Message-ID: <RJC.91May1190535@brodie.cstr.ed.ac.uk> Date: 1 May 91 19:05:35 GMT References: <9104292009.AA01975@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <13247@goofy.Apple.COM> Sender: news@aipna.ed.ac.uk Distribution: gnu Organization: Centre for Speech Technology Research Lines: 18 In-reply-to: shebs@Apple.COM's message of 30 Apr 91 16:26:47 GMT