rms@AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) (10/29/90)
One should:
1. Refuse to use any Apple machine. This may require changing positions
to a different group, department, or company.
2. Argue vociferously against the purchase of Apple equipment.
3. Encourage others to join the boycott.
Actually, those are not the most important ways to boycott Apple.
Even more important are these:
* Don't work for Apple. (Work for someone else instead.)
* Don't develop software for Apple systems. (Develop for some other system.)
* Don't port software to them. (Instead, port Mac software to other systems.)
Also, I hope people don't have the impression that the boycott has to
be all-or-nothing. As for the FSF, it isn't hard for us to boycott
Apple completely, so we might as well do so. If a total boycott
entails great difficulties for you, you might be able to cut down your
dealings with Apple to a certain extent fairly easily.
Thus, getting rid of a Mac you have already paid for may be something
you can't afford, but refusing to buy another is much easier. If your
project is wedded to Macs, it can't stop using them all of a sudden,
but it could start branching out to other systems. Anything which
reduces the extent to which you promote or do business with Apple is a
step in the right direction. The important thing is to do what you
can.