Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU!rms From: rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: C++ on Mac Message-ID: <8806202049.AA00862@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> Date: 20 Jun 88 20:49:12 GMT Sender: daemon@eddie.MIT.EDU Lines: 13 Rather than looking for ways to produce more software for the Macintosh system, it would be more useful in the long term (a couple of years) to boycott Apple and encourage others to do likewise. Apple is attacking our freedom to write free software (as well as other things). If they succeed, we will lose many useful pieces of software that will be illegal to write. It is worth while to forego a few temporary benefits to prevent this. It's true that the boycott might not be widespread enough to work. But it certainly can't work if we don't try. Someone has got to start it, so I volunteer. I hope some of the rest of you will join and spread the word.