Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!mit-eddie!"SDRRTR::PSI%PRSRTR::PSI%SCRVX2::BLUE::IN%\"'m_mailnow::m_sdr::davis'@scr-gateway\""@sdr.slb.COM From: "SDRRTR::PSI%PRSRTR::PSI%SCRVX2::BLUE::IN%\"'m_mailnow::m_sdr::davis'@scr-gateway\""@sdr.slb.COM Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: ./etc/APPLE. No Free Software for Mac users. Message-ID: <8809280447.AA05629@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 88 17:11:00 GMT Sender: daemon@eddie.MIT.EDU Lines: 36 To throw in my two-cents worth: I personally feel that Earl is pretty much in the right here inasmuch as Apple have a very legitimate right to determine via legal means how much of a restriction they can place on the rest of us. I don't like their implicit reasons for doing so, but the right is theirs to use as they wish. At the same time, I am saddened and disappointed that we do not live in a world where rms' ideas are sufficiently widespread as to make this kind of thing irrelevant. I wish that we did not attempt to view intellectual property in the same light as material belongings and that we could all take pleasure in seeing others using, developing and hopefully improving our own efforts. In the long run, we all benefit from such an approach. Sadly, Apple do not seem to take this approach. I understand the motives behind their action: it must be nice to make so much money from such simple ideas as the Mac, and I do believe that they have every right to take the issue to court - I just hope they lose, and that in the meantime, the rest of us can continue to believe in developing software for all of us, because we love doing that more than we love making money. To be honest, I'd rather be a something-else-by-day and a good hacker by night than the professional programmer I am, but that I am not is a consequence of my own particular situation. I like making money - at times, I don't even mind be branded a yuppie (though I prefer "guppie" (Green Urban Professional)) - but I do dislike doing so via something where my main satisfaction is non-financial. It feels like it will ultimately corrupt the very thing I enjoy at the moment ... So, lets not get hysterical, lets apply the same desire to share and progress to this issue and maybe some good will come of it. Sad not to have GNU on our new II's though ... Paul