FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce "Secure Boot"

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Steve,

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:24:54 -0600
"Steve G." <wordz2u at gmail.com> wrote:

> Either way, I am not going to participate in anything that lends credence to
> FSF. Quite frankly, at least  MS are not openly anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic,
> or anti 'the bad Jews/Israeli'.
> 

Well, from what I understood, it's just that Stallman in his visit to
the Palestinian Authority, complied to the demands of his Palestinian sponsors,
and wouldn't lecture at a place that didn't support the boycott of the Israeli
academia. That wasn't a global position of the Free Software Foundation, who
certainly isn't anti-Semitic (see
http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/politics/define-zionism/ about a lot of this confusion.). 

> Let someone more credible start a petition, and I will surely sign.
> 

Well, the petition is hosted on the FSF server, but otherwise it isn't
trying to promote them. And it's possible other entities won't start competing
petitions so as to not fragment the votes, so you'll never get to voice your
support.

Also see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> F-FSF.
> 
> Z.
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:13 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
> geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Oct 24, 2011, at 3:03 PM, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
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> >> On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> >>
> >>> I obviously don't agree with any of these statements, but it's sad that
> >>> apparently this is what people think (or at least, search in Google...).
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, most of the results of my intended query appear to be Israeli or
> >>> Jewish sources. It doesn't appear like the whole world had any interest
> >>> in this affair... I wonder if most free software activists are even aware
> >>> of
> >>> it.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> ROTFL. The vagaries of using google. I put in "richard stallman boycott
> >> israel" and 3,420 results.
> >>
> >> They are aware. Very aware.
> >>
> >
> >
> > BTW, "richard stallman israel boycott" yields 42,600 results.
> >
> >
> > Geoff.
> >
> > --
> > Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM
> > My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-(
> >
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