Responses to Dvir/Ely/Shlomi: Dvir Volk wrote:
> Actually, if you read RMS's columns on his website, you'll see that he > does not dislike Israel at all. His opinions are more or less equivalent > to mainstream Israeli leftist opinions, he's definitely not anti > Israeli. (read here for example: > http://www.stallman.org/good-fences.html) I've already seen worse things that were said about Israel. For example, Linus, in another IBM event, said something in a response to a question about Mosix. Or Alan Cox, at least a year earlier, said a very negative thing about Israel (again, in the context of Mosix...). Of course, all of them were wrong wrong, and all the logic and IQ in the world is not enough when the DATA that you are fed by the media is wrong. So they said bullshit about Israel. And about some other things as well. Well, nobody's perfect (Actually, now I recall very positive things that were said about Israel by Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Ed Zander, CEO of SAP, etc...). So let's focus on the fact that he is (they are) coming to Israel; Don't underestimate it! It's not usual these days, and most of the people of the world would avoid coming to Israel if they were at the same status. Ely Levy wrote: > Would that be the best thing happened to open source in israel in 8 > years? > Or would RMS just use it again to show how much he dislike israel? The recent actions that were taken by the Israel Government and the Knesset, are the far opposite of what you wrote. Sometimes, there are even "over" actions (like Nehama Ronen). But always the purpose is positive. The main achievement is the absolute support from the Ministry of Finance, and especially Itzik Cohen and Boaz Dolev (Boaz already migrated from PowerPoint to Impress, and he prepares his presentations by it). (the name of another one, S.S., was omitted, due to the nearing elections... ;-) Shlomi Fish wrote: > Are you suggesting we change the banner to read "Israeli GNU/Linux > Users"? > Temporarily or Permanently? Anyway, I like "Israeli Group of Linux Users" > better. Temporarily? If it worked in the era of Sallah Shabatti, why wouldn't it work today? ;-) -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= 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]
