Re: Law suits and thoughts on Library restrictions.

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From: Geoffrey Knauth
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 1990 18:19

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In article <46039@masscomp.ccur.com> will@nirvana.westford.ccur.com (Will Athanasiou) writes: [lawsuit rumors]
>The latest one I heard involves NeXT and their use of G++ to build their
>operating system.  Has anyone heard anything about this?  Can anyone
>substantiate this rumor, one way or the other?

This sounds like disinformation.  I believe the relationship between
NeXT and FSF is very cooperative, and that NeXT's Objective-C
enhancements to g++ have made their way back to FSF.
              Geoffrey S. Knauth                geoff@camex.com
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