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Re: Please, no Macintosh support.

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From: David Vinayak Wallace
Date: Sun, 13 May 1990 04:44
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   Date: 12 May 90 15:57:12 GMT
   From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)

   Yeah, right.  All you're doing is punishing people who have Apple
   machines and would want to run GNU stuff.  I find it highly
   unlikely that a significant number of people will change their mine
   about buying an Apple because gnumacs doesn't run on it.

Well I won't use one and probably would have, despite the unexciting
hardware.

Also, we have customers and prospects who tell us they no longer buy
ANY hardware which won't run gnu software.  The vendors are starting
to discover what this means in terms of lost sales.

Apple's monopolistic practice will probably help them in the short
term but in the long term will screw them, as any number of examples
in business can attest.  All rms is doing is accelerating the pace.

RMS urges you to act in a certain way; the choice is yours.  Apple, on
the other hand, wishes to constrain your choice.  Should the choice of
what software you run lie with you, the consumer, or with Apple, a
major corporation?
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Subject: Re: Please, no Macintosh support.
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