[gnu.misc.discuss] A question about machines for GNU

jonb@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Jon Buller) (07/27/89)

I saw a posting a while ago that said words to the effect of "Don't talk
about porting our stuff to machine X".  As I remember machine X was a
Macintosh.  My question is: Was that a statment that meant a) a joke 
(without the :-)  b) we hate anything that has the Apple name on it
c) we don't want to know about getting GNU to run under MacOS, MS-DOS, GEM,
etc.

For argument, say I have a Mac running A/UX (I don't, but for argument...)
Was this remark saying avoid that machine like the plague as far as FSF
is concerned?  Even though it is running Unix and possibly  X11, etc.?

Just curious...
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pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) (07/28/89)

jonb@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Jon Buller) writes:
>[What about this Apple Boycott?]

Introductory reading is available via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu.

	%ftp prep.ai.mit.edu
	login: anonymous
	passwd: {username}
	ftp> cd pub/gnu/etc
	ftp> get {file1}
	ftp> get {file2}
	ftp> bye

Files include

	APPLE
	DISTRIB
	FTP 
	GNU
	INTERVIEW
	MAILINGLISTS
	SERVICE

I described these files in a posting a few days ago.  The APPLE file, in
particular, is about the Apple vs. Microsoft/HP lawsuit, and is good
background reading.

	;-D on  ( Why not a `personcott'? )  Pardo
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