"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > preaching for "freedom" as he does. I hope the new amuta will stress > > technical issues rather than ideological ones. > > I hope the amuta will replace your "rather than" with an "as well as". > > The Amuta's name has "free software and open source", right? Let's > understand it as "ideological issues and practical issues", and act > accordingly. Neither should be stessed over the other.
The more I think about it, the more problem I have with it. I distrust ideology (managing to respect the notion in the process), and I have resolved many years ago that I would not be a member of any organization whose purposes and charter are beyond purely professional. This is regardless of whether I support the ideology in question or not. Please don't take it as reflecting in any negative way on Hamakor or its members or their views. I would like to hope that Hamakor could be an organization of cpmputer professionals that deals with technology, leaving ideology to "Opinion" pages. I don't think Hamakor should *explicitly* deal with bringing freedom to the society, noble as the cause may be. If Hamakor has ideological purposes, I'll have to deal with the conflict with who I am. I guess I'll have to re-read the amuta's web site. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is nothing more practical than idealism." [Richard M. Stallman, quoted with permission] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
