Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-08-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014, geoffrey mendelson wrote about Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?: All I know is that in 1990 I bought an ATT UNIX system which included the ATT KERNEL, a lot of closed source software and a lot of open source BSD utilities. There

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Orna, I'm thinking of renting a room for Stand-up philosophy sessions where people can donate money at any time. Thanks for letting me reply to the list . I opted for that. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Shlomi,

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 7/6/2014 10:50 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Anyway, the GPLv3 or whatever licence the GNU sub-projects have does not prevent me from using GNU software, so that's it. The interesting point is that outside of a relatively small group of developers project GNU has no bearing on anything. Free (as in

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:51:35AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On 7/6/2014 10:50 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Anyway, the GPLv3 or whatever licence the GNU sub-projects have does not prevent me from using GNU software, so that's it. The interesting point is that outside of a relatively small

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 7/7/2014 11:57 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: There wasn't that much good BSD code out there when the GNU project started. BSD started provided a complete system at the beginning of the 1990-s. And shortly thereafter it got into a trial with ATT. Also shortly after development was halted and much

Fwd: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Silly spam stuff. -- Forwarded message -- From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org Date: Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:30 PM Subject: Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe? To: Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il Cc: Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com, Linux-IL

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Re:all //Taking flamebait... after a crazy topic lets have a crazy flamewar on Israeli politics because we have nothing better to do with our lives. 2014-07-06 7:48 GMT+03:00 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: But your, Geoff, incendiary remarks re RMS, are quite out of place.

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-05 Thread Ori Idan
Ok, I'll jump on this wagon, I also want sponsorship, I ask for half the amount that Shlomi is asking. I will use the money to buy a sailing yacht and sail around the world, Ok maybe not around the world but at least in the Mediterranean. In return to this generous sponsorship I will put the name

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
But your, Geoff, incendiary remarks re RMS, are quite out of place. RMS' laudable stance on BDS is quite irrelevant to this list, in my opinion. Incendiary or not, his actions did have an effect upon the FOSS community. Besides any direct effect in relation to RMS , the FSS and project

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 7/4/2014 8:56 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all, I wish to go on a Summer trip to Europe (flight to Istanbul and then taking trains) where I: ROTFL. Not only do I not think this belongs on this list, but it's ridiculous. If I were in a position to sponsor anyone for more than a felafel

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Geoffrey, hope you had a great Shabbath by the time you're reading it. You're raising some interesting points which I'd like to address, and I apologise if I weren't clear and explicit before. On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On

Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, I wish to go on a Summer trip to Europe (flight to Istanbul and then taking trains) where I: 1. Eat good food and drinks. 2. Have a good company of people I know from Freenode or other social media outlets, as well as people I just met. 3. Have clean, creative, fun. At age 37 (I'm