Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!bu-cs!bloom-beacon!apple!rutgers!labrea!agate!ogus@math.Berkeley.EDU From: ogus@math.Berkeley.EDU (Arthur E. Ogus) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: ./etc/APPLE. No Free Software for Mac users. Message-ID: <14713@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 88 19:26:03 GMT References: <10172@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <8809260004.AA02196@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: ogus@math.Berkeley.EDU (Arthur E. Ogus) Distribution: gnu Organization: UCB Mathematics Department Lines: 17 In-reply-to: rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) I agree with rms, and am appalled by Apple's suit. I hope they lose. However, the fact is that I am stuck with a Macintosh II for my use at home, and presumably will be for several years. (The reasons for this are not so important, but not atypical--I work in a group of several people, two of whom already owned Mac's, and it seemed important for all of us to get the same computer. Funds had to be spent (and delivery completed) by a certain date. Furthermore, the purchase was made before Apple announced its suit.) The upshot is that it is pretty much impossible for me to boycott Apple at this stage--except, for example, by not purchasing A/UX. Since I would dearly love to get GNU or at least GNU Emacs running at home, I will be badly hurt by any concerted effort to block the porting of FSF software to the Macintosh. Even if you want encourage people not to purchase Apple hardware in the future, please don't be too hard on "innocents" like me. --