GNU - FSF against A/UX !!

Peter Espen pke@btr.com pke at public.BTR.COM
Mon Sep 3 03:20:54 AEST 1990


 The following is a copy of an article posted to 
comp.emacs:

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Article 874 of 887, Thu 17:28.
Subject: GNU under A/UX 2.0 ???
From: rms at AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
Path: btr!decwrl!ucbvax!AI.MIT.EDU!rms
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Date: 31 Aug 90 00:28:34 GMT
Sender: daemon at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU

The FSF is not going to support any software on AUX because of the
danger posed to future free software development by Apple's lawsuit.

For more information about the lawsuit and the harm it can do,
ask league at prep.ai.mit.edu for the position paper, "Against User
Interface Copyright".

To those of you who might find out about any ports to AUX: I hope you
will not recommend them to anyone else.  Third-party software plays an
important role in making a system successful.  To encourage use by
others of any software for an Apple system is to contribute directly
to Apple's sales activities.

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  Apple is paying a price for it's lawsuit!  Any comments??

Peter Espen
pke at btr.com



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