Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Tzafrir and all!

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:05 AM Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 13/05/2020 6:17, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 May 2020 09:44:34 +0300
> > Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Geoffrey!
> >>
> >> Please see
> >> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html and
> >> let's drop the "antisemitism" argument once and for all.
> >
> > Well, speaking only for myself, in 2009 I erased Mint from all my
> > computers and never used it again. The following is a contemporaneous
> > description of why:
> >
> >
> http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200908/200908.htm#_The_Politics_of_Free_Software:_Pet_predjudices
> >
> > If anybody knows the location of a web resource in which the Mint
> > project completely repudiated the unfortunate words Clem LeFebre placed
> > *on the official Mint blog*, I'll change my stance.
> > Otherwise, I'll neither use nor recommend Linux Mint.
>
> See the archived Wikipedia talk page:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux_Mint/Archive_Israel-Palestine_Controversy
>
> On the official blog he wrote:
> https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=775
> That is: that politics is out of the official Linux Mint blog.
>
> >
> > Just in case somebody here doesn't know what we're talking about, the
> > message originally posted on the official Linux Mint blog included the
> > phrase "I don’t want any money or help coming from Israel or people who
> > support the action of their current government."
>
> As of 2012, an Israeli company is listed (with an Israeli flag) in Linux
> Mint's partners page:
> https://www.linuxmint.com/partners.php
>
> I'd say: what was was was was.
>
>
I just would like to say that I agree with you here. From my experience,
life is too short to hold such grudges and keep finding flies in ointments.

(Written in part by inspiration from Eli Marmor's law).



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