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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.
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Date: 28 Sep 88 17:58:18 GMT
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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)