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From: shibumi@well.UUCP (Kenton A. Hoover)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,gnu.emacs,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ./etc/APPLE.  No Free Software for Mac users.
Message-ID: <7196@well.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 88 00:09:03 GMT
Reply-To: shibumi@well.UUCP (Kenton A. Hoover)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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>entire thing including source code.  If this were true, it would
>interfaces and that when viable alternatives (NeXT's AIX interface?,
>Open Look?) are available which are defacto standards and aren't
>propriatary, Apple will lose business by sticking to their proprietary
>interface.  Hopefully, they will see the light by then and RMS will
>remove his restriction and support GNU software on Apple products.
>

As my mother always told me, de-facto standards are those standards which
people choose to use, not those that choose to call themselves such. Also,
de-facto standards pretty much require that the standard be available for
public review, which is not true of the supposed NeXT AIX interface...
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