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In article <1992Sep15.194156.25683@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) 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.

What it means to "help" someone is extremely fuzzy.

If I can take a year to write a compiler for a Mac, or I can take a month
to port GCC to the Mac, I'd argue that FSF is "helping" me get a compiler
for the Mac.
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