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Don't forget the NeXT's failed attempts to steal GCC.
by fluidcruft 15y ago
Don't forget the NeXT's failed attempts to steal GCC.
- gillianseed 15y agoSteal is inacurrate, however Jobs tried to combine GCC's backend with Next's proprietary ObjC frontend. He wasn't legally able to do so (he tried to sneak past GPL by distributing them as separate packages and claim that the end-user would do the actual linking) and since he really needed the GCC backend this meant that GCC got ObjC support.
- nirvana 15y agoHow can you "steal" something that is given away for free? Your accusation contains the truth of the matter. No "Free software" is actually free. The F stands for Fascism. Stallman gets to dictate who uses it and who doesn't without regard to what the GPL actually says. At least, thats how it operates. Notice how, Apple using and supporting free software has resulted no end in dishonest accusations from you and others in this thread? This is why I will have nothing to do with your "movement" and oppose it at every turn.
- fluidcruft 15y agoI don't see how commenting on NeXT's attempts to circumvent the GPL was criticizing Apple at all. NeXT's goal was to wrap GCC with a proprietary wrapper thereby appropriating the FSF's work and denying users the freedom to modify and adapt it for their own purposes. Copyright laws are reality. Free software is pragmatically protected by copyright. Misappropriation of copyrighted works is considered "theft"/"stealing" by the groups with which Apple chooses to associate and for which Apple forces restrictive DRM on end users.