2011/7/17 Dima (Dan) Yasny <dya...@gmail.com> > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Orr Dunkelman <orr.dunkel...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Michael Shiloh >> <michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com> >> To be more general, it is unheard of >> for a prospective guest to set >> >> political conditions for his hosts. Aside of any other aspects, the man >> >> is a boor, and should have been ignored. >> > >> > >> > I'm not sure that's true. Haven't musicians and other performers used >> their >> > platform as a way to express agreement or disagreement with particular >> > political positions for ages? >> > >> > Michael >> >> It is very rare in computer science to mix politics and work. >> Actually, this is true for most exact sciences. >> >> As for RMS, who is an advocate of freedom of rights, he has just >> agreed to accept money (travel costs) in exchange for giving away his >> freedom of speech. >> Tz'e Wolmad... >> >> > /me don't see what the argument is about. I'll simply vote against RMS's > and his politically inclined friends bs with my feet by _not_ going. End of > story > > Yes, there is that. But thanks to the law passed last week we can also take affirmative action. I don't think that suing RMS or the FSF will be a good idea, or even feasible (IANAL and I'm pretty sure that this law doesn't hold for people/groups from abroad) but we might be able to sue the group financing his trip. Again, I'm not sure that that's even a good idea. But it is possible.
> -- >> >> Orr Dunkelman, >> orr.dunkel...@gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > -- > Regards, > Dan Yasny > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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