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- From: rbp@netcom.com (Bob Pasker)
- Subject: Re: gcc for the mac?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.001351.10205@netcom.com>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:13:51 GMT
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- jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch) writes:
- >Unless you can find a way to get apple to 1) stop making software patents,
- >2) stop suing on the basis of look-and-feel and 3) make a commitment that
- >they won't ever do it again, there will be no ports of GCC to the Macintosh
- >supported by GCC's authors. Even if apple does all three above, there _still_
- >might not be an officially supported port.
-
- is this because the FSF people believe that they will get sued for
- porting it or because the FSF want to punish apple?
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