I'm pretty suree RMS' reply bounced so here I am quoting it for all of you. he sent me a longer reply in person and they both confirm what I thought - he's more interested in fulfilling his original obligation and use it for promoting collaboration.
Moreover, he says the ban imposed on him is NOT Israel in its entirety, but only the Universities (the private Shenkar College seems kosher according to him). The weird but sensible thing to do is find lecture halls outside the universities and there would be no conflict. I think there are now several people in the readers who should marinade their hats for making this a bigger political issue than it really is. I'll be posting his personal replies to me in my blog later, and sending them to the papers. On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 07:36, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > I saw that you sent an E-mail message canceling all of your talks > in Israel= in the upcoming visit. > > Not all of them -- only the ones at universities. It is the > universities that the funders object to. I have one planned talk > which is not at a university, which I still plan to give. > > I will forward your message to them. I hope you can indeed work > something out, because cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians > is good. > > Another possible approach is to find other venues for the other talks > I was going to give in Israel. > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin St > Boston MA 02110 > USA > www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/ >
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