Fascinating history of the anti-Apartheid
- Cory Doctorow
- Uncategorized
- Nov 26, 2001
Fascinating history of the anti-Apartheid samizdat movement’s response to Apple divesting from South Africa.
Despite Apple’s non-presence, I was able to win support for replacing our old Apple II lab for a lab of Mac SEs. A fair number of our faculty members had Macs in their offices. All of this, I emphasize, was not an indication that we approved of the apartheid system, and wanted to bust sanctions. On the contrary, we were active in opposing the system, and wanted the best tools for the job.