Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mcnc!duke!romeo!crm From: crm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: ./etc/APPLE. No Free Software for Mac users. Summary: leave us alone. Message-ID: <12519@duke.cs.duke.edu> Date: 28 Sep 88 17:58:18 GMT References: <8809281340.AA16052@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@duke.cs.duke.edu Lines: 36 In article <8809281340.AA16052@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>, jym@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Jym Dyer) writes: > > We have Macs in our office. They're used mostly as spreadsheets and to > make memos. I'm installing TeX on our other machines to reduce the demand > on the Macs and thus reduce the demand to buy new ones. Anyone else have > boycott ideas? > > Remember this handy hint: Boycott California grapes and Apple! > <_Jym_> > > P.S.: Boycott, Icelandic fish, General Electric, and light tuna while you're > at it. :-) Look: this is comp.emacs. This is a technical group. It is for discussions of emacs. It isn't for discussions for grape boycotts, Apple boycotts, fish boycotts, and light tuna boycotts. So push off. And while we're at it, keep this crap in the politically correct gnu groups; I don't agree, I have equally good rationale or rationalization for my position, and I am beginning to get more than a little tired of bozos who believe that my right to my opinion ends where my disagreement with their opinions begins. Note that I have no disagreement with Stallman doing what he has done, as it is his code. (Interestingly, he has to appeal to his intellectual property rights to the code in order to make code available, so if we want to *really* PC about it, isn't he simply encouraging that which he so dislikes?) Nor do I necessarily think Apple is right: "look and feel" is far too loose a concept to be enforced. The original look and feel suit simply opened up another chance for a total-employment measure for lawyers, and should be overturned. HOWEVER! This is *not* the place! SO PUT IT BLOODY WELL SOMEWHERE ELSE! Charlie Martin (crm@cs.duke.edu,mcnc!duke!crm)