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A number of people have commented on the FSFs boycott of Apple. From what
Richard Stallman has said, am I to take it that GNU ultimately has plans to
create a full operating system along with windowing environment? Is there any
sort of indicated time frame for this? What will the result look like?

While I see the FSFs point of view on Apple's lawyers, I'd just like to make a
brief point. I am part of the poor market who have no more than about $1500 to
spend on a machine, so have a choice of MSDOS, Mac or Amiga. Since I want to be
able to use well-known programs, exchange files with friends etc, Amiga was out-
please no flames about how great it is- and since I'd had enough of programming
64K segments and the MSDOS program loader that claims it's an operating system,
the idea of programming Macs was far more appealing. I'm sure there are many
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. 

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