Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 08:13, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the academic boycott. Would you find it to be acceptable for the Palestinians to use ABC (atomic/biological/chemical) weapons to fight the Israeli occupation because

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Stan Goodman
On Tuesday 07 June 2011 at 12:23:27 (GMT+2) Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 08:13, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the academic boycott. Would you find it to be acceptable for the Palestinians to

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 07 Jun 2011 12:43:51 Stan Goodman wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 at 12:23:27 (GMT+2) Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 08:13, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the academic boycott.

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: That is a very brief list of some of the things that go over Mr Stallman's head. I think they amount to gross hypocrisy. Giving him a pass for his hypocrisy is also hypocritical. Stan (and others), This is Israel, and he is allowed to be a

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: How do all these things of what the Palestinians are doing wrong, invalidate Stallman's criticism against Israel? Shouldn't Israel behave properly regardless of whatever the other side is doing? Yes, Israel should. The question of what is

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Barry.R
On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: That is a very brief list of some of the things that go over Mr Stallman's head. I think they amount to gross hypocrisy. Giving him a pass for his hypocrisy is also hypocritical. Stan (and others), This is Israel, and he is allowed to

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: And we are getting way off-topic here. No, we are not. RMS has chosen to marry the two topics, now we have to accept one if we want the other. No, RMS

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Meir Michanie
I think that everyone has an opinion, a political agenda and a personal agenda. I chose to use FOSS as a way to defend my right to use any software in anyway I want and not to be tide to the political/business agenda of a proprietary software provider. The right to use free software should be a

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 01:17:06PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: This, BTW is why I dislike the GPL, it has some baggage attached, which now includes BDS. I much prefer BSD's do what you want, but don't do it here* license. BSD is bad because: A. It's all to much like BDS (which can't

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 13:17, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: In case you don't know what I am talking about: http://www.bdsmovement.net/ Thanks for the link. My opinion is that Richard Stallman has the right to express his opinions against the Israeli occupation, with

[OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 07:40 +0300, Uri Even-Chen wrote: I agree with Richard Stallman's views about the Israeli occupation. The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the academic boycott. Would you find it to be acceptable for the Palestinians to use ABC