Who Sponsors the Boycotts?

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From: Robert E. Seastrom
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 1990 15:51

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   From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)

   Are the boycotts against Lotus and Apple a GNU activity or an LPF
   activity?

OK, someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this:

The GNU boycott of Apple is simply a "port boycott"; that is, FSF will
not port (or distribute someone else's port of) Emacs or other FSF
packages for Apple machines.  Read $BUILD/etc/MACHINES on your Emacs
distribution.

The LPF encourages people to not buy products of Apple Computers or
Lotus Development Corporation due to these companies' unfair trade
practices.

   What other companies are being boycotted?

I'm not sure; isn't Ashton-Tate on the list?  We really ought to
compile an official list.

                                        ---Rob

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