Quoting geoffrey mendelson, from the post of Sun, 12 Jun: > > On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > > > >I don't agree with you, Geoff. What Richard Stallman does as a > >private person does not mean the FSF in involved. As a private > >person Richard Stallman has the right to boycott Israeli > >institutions and universities. It does not mean that the FSF is > >boycotting Israel. > > You can agree or not, it's your opinion. However US law is that once > he signs his emails as an officer of the corporation, in this case > president, it does.
you know, there IS a logical falacy of guilt by association. before you oycot the FSF and the registration office that handled their NGO registration, and the entire govenrment of the country that enploys that registration clerk, and so on, I suggest we stop and call on the FSF spokespeople to give their opinion on the matter and maybe resolve it otherwise. two sideline remarks: 1. As I mentioned in my blog post, I don't see the financial boycott as a problem, and I'm even hoping it started moving something, but I have a real problem with justifying the academic BDS. however after I saw this Item, I wonder what will I do if more and more Universities ד‚?ere proven to act the same: http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Channel-2-Newscast/Article-230c47f2e3f8031004.htm# 2. As usuall, I am suprised how appropriate my random signature comes out :-) -- Peacemaker Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
