[Gllug] Gates, self proclaimed father of open-source

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Mon Nov 19 08:04:10 UTC 2001


On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Gordon Joly gibbered:
> Which reminds me... there was time when RMS and GNU boycotted the
> Apple Mac...

There was (during the Mac UI lawsuit era) --- but slap bang in the
middle of that NeXT contributed the Objective C frontend, and Apple are
definitely back in the loop now (thanks in no small part to Stan Shebs,
ex-Apple, ex-NeXT, ex-Cygnus and now back at Apple again).

-- 
`Many people have tried whispering in his ear, and indeed bellowing
 with megaphones but up to now he's seemed to be completely
 clue-immune.' --- John Winters

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