Re: FSF drops Apple boycott, opens gate for GNAT, etc.

[kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)]

In article <3gr7ql$39u@rational.rational.com> rlk@rational.com (Bob Kitzberger) writes:
>Am I the only one that finds it ironic that a group calling itself
>the League of Programming Freedom has prevented gcc from being ported
>to the Mac?  

You misrepresent the record here.  The FSF cannot prevent GCC from
being ported to any machine, since it is under the GPL and it did not
prevent such a port from being performed.

However, the FSF did not assist in such port, either before or
after the fact, though there was certainly such a port.

The reason for this is that if Apple had been successful in their
legal action, people would no longer have the freedom to write
programs such as GCC.

It would have been hypocritical of the FSF to support a company
whose aims were to prevent the FSF and other similar groups from
producing free software.