From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd24e54f7983a2f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-07 03:25:04 PST Path: swrinde!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!panix!cmcl2!lab.ultra.nyu.edu!kenner From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FSF drops Apple boycott, opens gate for GNAT, etc. Date: 7 Feb 1995 10:32:00 GMT Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab Message-ID: <3h7i70$pn6@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> References: <3gnviq$epn@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3gr7ql$39u@rational.rational.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lab.ultra.nyu.edu Date: 1995-02-07T10:32:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.