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Article #75680Re: Please, no Macintosh support.
From: David Vinayak Wallace
Date: Sun, 13 May 1990 04:44
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,cef6569ca77fb1eb,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-05-12 23:19:11 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!shelby!neon!neon!gumby From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Please, no Macintosh support. Message-ID: <GUMBY.90May12214404@Cygnus.COM> Date: 13 May 90 04:44:04 GMT References: <9005091849.AA21411@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <102215@convex.convex.com> Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Distribution: gnu Organization: Cygnus Support Lines: 24 Posted: Sun May 13 05:44:04 1990 In-Reply-To: datri@convex.com's message of 12 May 90 15:57:12 GMT