Geoff, On 12/05/2020 22:16, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Geoffrey, > > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:51 PM Geoffrey Mendelson > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > i went to the trouble of signing into one of my linux servers and > reading the link. > > It was your telling me not to talk about how RMS said as president > of the FSF that he was going to honor the Palestinian boycott of > Israel. It had nothing to do with linux mint.
That is what you wrote then. However it is not really based on any data. At the time IBM really wanted to continue developing its own fork of OpenOffice and for that they did not want OpenOffice to continue with the LibreOffice fork, that already existed (and had a license that would prevent them from making a priprietary fork). That is the most probably cause for Oracle to move OpenOffice to Apache. Stallman wasn't really involved with LibreOffice at the time. See my reply from then: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg66440.html Oh, and if you go a bit up that thread you see another message that happened to be by me that mentions that Mint is such an anti-Israeli distribution that it has partnered to Compulab (an Israeli company) that ships boxes with Mint pre-installed, and they are clearly listed with an Israeli flag in their "partners" page: https://www.linuxmint.com/partners.php So Clem was ignorant and made incorrect statements almost 15 years ago. He realized he was wrong and repented (again, almost 15 years ago). And yet you keep making those false accusations. Even after you were corrected time and again. -- Tzafrir _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
