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Re: GCC for Atari




> > The League for Programming Freedom has been boycotting Apple (and the FSF
> > has been doing it too) ever since they started hitting on people with
> > their "look & feel" lawsuits.  People will receive no support trying to
> > port or use GNU stuff on Macs, and their changes will not make it into
> > the official distributions for anything.
> >
> A boycott which has outlived its purpose.  Apple has changed leadership
> twice since the boycott began, has stopped throwing around such lawsuits
> (There are now mac emulators for DOS, atari (?), amiga, SUN, and NeXT),
> and as of three weeks ago, has agreed to license the Mac OS.  The time
> has come for the boycott to END.

If I had known more about GNU when I decided to go for Atari, I'd probably
have chosen for the Mac so as to avoid any contact with the junk.

Sorry, no time to write more.  My Pure C compiler doesn't supply me with as
much time for mailing around during compiler jobs as your GCC does...