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In article <1992Sep14.161420.18763@ists.ists.ca> collins@ists.ists.ca (Mike Collins) writes:
   I have not been keeping up on the newsgroup. Could someone
   tell me if FSF has changed their position on apple. There are
   many of us who use macintosh computers, but do not subscribe
   to apple's corporate neuroses. I cannot think of a better way
   to subvert apple's position than to port all of GNU software to
   the macintosh. Will FSF ever let macintosh users in from the cold?
   I use many of GNU's applications on unix machines at work, and i 
   subscribe, to a great extent, to their philosophy.

   cheers
   mjc

I also am a little curious about FSF's position on Macintosh ports.  OK,
Apple sued some people, and maybe that's not so good.  But what differentiates
USL's suit against UC Berkeley (BTW, even though I may be a grad student
at UCB, I have/had nothing to do with BSD Unix (or whatever you want to call
it), I'm just a disinterested bystander) from Apple's suits?  Shouldn't the
FSF stop supporting >ALL< System V ports of their programs and remove them
from the "official" gnu archives?  For example, should the FSF not consider
Solaris 2.0 support for any programs because Sun abandoned BSD for SVR4?

Or is the FSF position on Apple perhaps less rational?

Roland

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Roland Dreier                                        dreier@math.berkeley.edu