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

[Stan Goodman]

On Tuesday 25 October 2011 10:07:30 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:18:43PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> > On Oct 24, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >> 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.).
> > 
> > You understand wrong. Since Stallman signed his messages as
> > President of the FSF, they are legally the position of the FSF.
> 
> IANAL and thus IDCALI.
> 
> Stallman did this as a private person.

He was in the Middle East to speak as an officer of FSF; he cancelled 
his talk to the Israel group at the behest of the Jordanian group, which 
had a political axe to grind. It doesn't matter if there were signed 
letters or not, and certainly not on what stationery they were written. 
The basic fact is that he adopted the illegitmate demand of the 
Jordanian group and cancelled for an abhorent excuse. That could not 
have been done as a private person.
-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel