Re: "official" FSF position on apple

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From: Anthony Rossini
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:23

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Oh, come on.   This is getting sick.

If you are mad because people aren't creating free software for you, FSF's
policy gives you the opportunity to take the source and port it to an Apple
product.  If you don't like it the "political agenda" (or a certain subset),
take the source and port it.  If you don't have time or ability, set up an
Apple-ish FSF, get everyone to donate a few bucks, buy a programmer, and you
won't have to deal with the parts of the political agenda that you don't
like.  And you will get good software, hopefully.  I'm assuming, right or
wrong, that the basic philosophy of the copyleft is fairly agreeable, even
if you don't buy into some of the potential ramifications.

Isn't the source code enough?  If you want handholding, talk to Apple and
shell out the bucks...

-tony


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Anthony Rossini       -       rossini@biostat.harvard.edu
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Ave, Boston MA 02115  617-432-1056

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