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In article <27017@mimsy.umd.edu> gdrew@TOVE.CS.UMD.EDU (Greg Drew) writes:

   I understand your position, but I think maybe you should lighten up a bit
   on us individual users.  Some people may be working on a platform like A/UX
   not because of any political decion they made - it may be corporte, 
   institutional, etc policy which has placed one of these systems on someones
   desk.  In effect you are punishing these people for the decisions made by
   someone else.

I think you have things twisted a bit. It is the "corporate,
institutional, etc policy" which is punishing the users not the FSF.

   Where large corporations fight to restrict their software for their
   own personal projects, you are talking about restricting your
   software to those people who act as you wish them to.

The FSF has never restricted their software to anyone. There is
nothing stopping a bunch of Apple supporters from forming there own
support group for software licensed by the General Public License.
They will have all the same rights under the GPL as people who do not
own Apple computers. It is unfortunate that your university has chosen
to force you to buy a Macintosh computer,  I think you have been
victimized. It would be wrong for the FSF to contribute to the
victimization of others by supporting you and others who own Apple
computers.
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Dan Guilderson                               ryan@berlin-gw.diag.stratus.com
Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA, USA    #include <stddisclaimer.h>