<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/17 Dima (Dan) Yasny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dyasny@gmail.com">dyasny@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Orr Dunkelman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orr.dunkelman@gmail.com" target="_blank">orr.dunkelman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Michael Shiloh<br>
<<a href="mailto:michaelshiloh1010@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaelshiloh1010@gmail.com</a>> >> To be more general, it is unheard of<br>
<div>for a prospective guest to set<br>
>> political conditions for his hosts. Aside of any other aspects, the man<br>
>> is a boor, and should have been ignored.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I'm not sure that's true. Haven't musicians and other performers used their<br>
> platform as a way to express agreement or disagreement with particular<br>
> political positions for ages?<br>
><br>
> Michael<br>
<br>
</div>It is very rare in computer science to mix politics and work.<br>
Actually, this is true for most exact sciences.<br>
<br>
As for RMS, who is an advocate of freedom of rights, he has just<br>
agreed to accept money (travel costs) in exchange for giving away his<br>
freedom of speech.<br>
Tz'e Wolmad...<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>/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</div>
<div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, there is that.<br>But thanks to the law passed last week we can also take affirmative action.<br>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.<br>
Again, I'm not sure that that's even a good idea. But it is possible.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Orr Dunkelman,<br>
<a href="mailto:Orr.Dunkelman@gmail.com" target="_blank">Orr.Dunkelman@gmail.com</a><br>
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