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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/4/2014 8:56 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:<br>
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I wish to go on a Summer trip to Europe (flight
to Istanbul and then taking trains) where I:<br>
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ROTFL.<br>
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Not only do I not think this belongs on this list, but it's
ridiculous. <br>
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If I were in a position to sponsor anyone for more than a felafel at
a stand up kiosk, I would consider this so unreasonable that it's
just laughable. As I said, IF I were going to fund someone, I might
consider a plan that includes 2 $1,000 airplane tickets, and about
$1,000 a week for hotel, food, transportation within each country
and train fare to the next country, for a week in a country to give
4-5 FOSS lectures, and then move one. You probably could start in
the Irish Republic and bounce along to the Russian Republic which
would take around 15-20 weeks.<br>
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Or you could the same thing for about 1.5 times the money in the US,
which would take an entire year, one week per state.<br>
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But not just for a vacation, or for sponsorship opportunity, you
would have to show off your operating system that lots of people
use, or your office suite, Nobel Prize, or Olympic Medal. <br>
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No use writing an editor, no one is interested in paying RMS to
speak, especially since he, as president of the FSF, ex <a
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.</pre>
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