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Article #968Re: "official" FSF position on apple
From: Greg Hennessy
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:41
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:41
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In article <1992Sep15.185227.2692@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes: #Why _does_ the FSF allow its software to be ported to Apple machines, even if #it refuses to do so itself? Because restricing the distribution of code is what the FSF is fighting for. Because the FSF is one of the few organizations that still recognize the difference between forbidding someone from doing something, and not helping somebody do something. -- -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!caen!uvaarpa!murdoch!fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU!gsh7w From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple Message-ID: <1992Sep15.194156.25683@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 15 Sep 92 19:41:56 GMT References: <1992Sep15.042744.1220@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <ROSSINI.92Sep15102354@biosun4.harvard.edu> <1992Sep15.185227.2692@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 17