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In article <9104292009.AA01975@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rms@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) writes:

>Boycott AT&T?  Perhaps.  Perhaps it would make sense to boycott AT&T
>if they file suit.  However, the best way to boycott them would be in
>their hardware and their long-distance service.  To boycott Unix would
>be self-defeating because it leaves too little alternative.  (The
>boycott of Apple does not have this problem; there are plenty of
>alternatives we aren't boycotting.)

I suspected something like this for quite a while - the Apple boycott was
prompted more by convenience than by principle.  Not too many Unix users on
Macs, difficulty porting to A/UX, Macs generally underpowered to run Gnu
software well, Apple visible enough to make it look like the boycott is
some big-time sacrifice.  The FSF has saved itself a lot of time and trouble
by boycotting Apple.  I would be more impressed by a boycott of AT&T, DEC,
IBM, Intel (aren't they suing AMD over chip designs?), HP, Sun, etc.

						Stan Shebs
						Apple ATG System Software
						shebs@apple.com