schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) (06/01/89)
In article <6808@ardent.UUCP>, mac@mrk (Michael McNamara) writes: > I recall an interview with sun compiler people ... > They dispaired of keeping up with gcc. So what does Scott McNealy think of this? He's the dude at Sun that matters. Similarly, you better worry about what the corperate leadership at Apple thinks. We already KNOW that (at least one of) Apple's compiler people like gcc, right? Serious question: does Apple's leadership know (or care) about the boycott? Have they talked about it publicly? > Remember: a company is completely at the mercy of only one >Person: The Customer. If the Customer says no, the company files >chapter 11. Your message should be directed to the current customers >of apple. So instead of wasting all this bandwidth on usenet, how about an ad in the New York Times? An amicus-curie brief in the lawsuit? A spot on 60 Minutes! These things will get more people to understand the issues, and will have a bigger effect than the reletively small number of Mac's that hackers decline to purchase. -- Scott Schwartz <schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu>
seanf@UCSCC.UCSC.EDU (06/05/89)
>So instead of wasting all this bandwidth on usenet, how about an ad in >the New York Times? This might, actually, be a good idea. How 'bout it, rms and info-gnu-*? Is everybody willing to donate upwards of $100 to pay for a full-page ad in the Business section of the NY Times or the Wall Street Journal? (an aside: if so, have you donated $100 to FSF?) >An amicus-curie brief in the lawsuit? This has been discussed. If we could get a single document, signed by everybody at UseNIX (hint! hint!!!!), then it might be ok; otherwise, I don't think so. >A spot on 60 Minutes! See my first paragraph. Sean.