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In article <1991Apr30.185055.4372@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
+people in my position- with no great love of Apple, but no alternative. Now
+while I follow the FSFs logic, it does kind of seem that if a free alternative
+to Mac or MSDOS/Windows is 10 years away, we poor Mac users are being unduly
+penalized here and now. 

How about a FHF, Free Hardware Foundation, the purpose of which is
to provide Free (and 'cheap' to impliment) Hardware designs. The
'package' would include sufficent documentation to produce a
processor board to run the Free Software OS. This would include
schematics, PAL equations(and a interpreter to produce fuse maps),
layouts, drill drawings, etc. These could then be taken to a local
PC fab house. Or alternatively, a centralized production facility
which would produce the board at a nominal cost. One could almost do
this with the PC, since there is a 3-5 chip set which implements the
functions required for a processor board, but I personally don't
like the '86 architecture.

Probably not do-able since tapes cost only $20 whereas hardware
costs >$200-$500 or more.
>
>I would just suggest that perhaps FSF people could meet with Apple, discuss
>their aims, their present code and a rough sketch of what their final
>OS/user-interface would look like, and based on Apple's written, contractual
>response, decide whether to continue the boycott.
>
>Maynard Handley


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