Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu! AI.MIT.EDU!rms From: r...@AI.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Protect Your Freedom--Boycott Apple Message-ID: <8905240213.AA00603@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> Date: 24 May 89 02:13:16 GMT Sender: dae...@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 29 I urge everyone reading these words: if you love the GNU project or GNU software, don't cooperate with Apple's use of GCC, and don't use Macintoshes with or without GCC. You may have noticed a gloating tone in Berry's announcement. The reason he is gloating is because he turned the GNU project's own mailing list toward the end of prohibiting free software. Perhaps that sounds preposterous, but it is no exaggeration. Berry's boss is suing people for developing upward-compatible replacement software--exactly what we do. If they win, most of the free software that the GNU project will want to do in the future will become illegal. To fight their efforts, we have urged a boycott of Apple. Berry hopes to undermine our efforts at self defense by posting advertisements for Apple on our own list--by using it to make contact with Apple customers. Apparently, Berry believes that the readers of this list are short-sighted, and would prefer the temporary benefit of using GCC on a Macintosh to the long term benefits possible from continued development of a wide variety of free software. He believes that you crave GCC on Macintoshes so badly that you would not wish to protect the source that gave you GCC, so it can give you something else tomorrow. He believes that you don't have the courage to make a sacrifice to preserve your freedom. Now it's up to you to show him, unmistakably, how wrong he is!
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu! ucbvax!bloom-beacon!shelby!polya!shap From: s...@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Re: GNU, Philosophy, Apple, Newsgroup owners etc. Message-ID: <9631@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 1 Jun 89 04:13:58 GMT References: <6847@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: Jonathan S. Shapiro <s...@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: s...@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) Distribution: gnu Organization: Stanford University Lines: 8 I have seen the suggestion to file friend of the court briefs twice now. I don't know how to go about doing it, but would be willing to if I could. Perhaps the most effective thing to do, if it were possible, wouldbe to swap the courts with such briefs... Can someone tell us how to go about filing such a thing? Jon
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu! AI.MIT.EDU!rms From: r...@AI.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Amicus brief Message-ID: <8906021815.AA00245@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> Date: 2 Jun 89 18:15:06 GMT References: <9631@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: dae...@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 7 Brett Glass is organizing the amicus briefs. He is gl...@mica.berkeley.edu. The League for Programming Freedom may be one of the sponsors of the briefs. If you join the League, and increase its membership, that will make its sponsorship more impressive. I'll send more on this when the League is officially organized and can sign up members.