On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011, Gabor Szabo wrote about "Re: FW: I have to cancel the > speeches at universities": > >> so I was surprised that youare raising the issue of who is financing >> the trip. If that was reallythe issue I am sure Stallman could write to >> the 3 Israeli organizersand ask them if they can help in splitting the costs. >> I am sure we could have come up with the money. > > Maybe he thought that the Israeli universities would not agree to finance > the trip (I would have thought so too). Maybe he even asked them earlier, > and they said they can't afford it. Maybe he thought he doesn't have enough > time to start this sort of beaurocracy now. Or maybe he thought that people > would find demanding money at the last moment even more offensive than not > coming at all. > > If we think that we can actually pull off this funding, in a timely manner, > then *we* can offer this option to him. He doesn't have to beg us...
I think *we* - the open source community - could easily put this money together even if the universities did not come up with the money but I am not sure at this point I'd want to do that. I don't think it would have been begging if he he told us what is the situation. But again, I doubt that the real reason the Palestinians wanted him to skip Israel is the money. >> Of course I could even accept the otherwise very paternalistic view >> of"The Palestinians need to hear Stallman. They need to hear about freedom >> andwe Israelis don't as we already know all if it." If he pointed thatout >> in his mail.He did not. So we can only put words in his mouth regarding this. > > These were not my words, so I wasn't the one putting these words in his mouth > - > maybe you're responding to someone else. Right. I should have pointed it out or send a separate message but I already sent too many :) Sorry for that. Gabor _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list Discussions@hamakor.org.il http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
