On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM, geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> And we are getting way off-topic here. > > No, we are not. RMS has chosen to marry the two topics, now we have to > accept one if we want the other.
No, RMS should not have any influence on the topics acceptable for discussion on Linux-IL. I would agree with Shlomi on this. While this list is about "Linux and Israel", as someone pointed out, correctly, a short while ago, it is primarily a *technical* forum. This particular thread is clearly not technical (I won't attempt to label it as political, moral, a combination thereof, or whatever). IMHO the topic properly belongs to, say, an hamakor list that is specifically devoted to FOSS issues, and - again, IMHO only - is very off-topic here. I agree with Geoff's observation that RMS acted (improperly, I think) as the President of FSF rather than as a private individual. He can have any opinions he wants as a private individual, acting on those opinions in his official FSF capacity clearly constitutes a conflict of interest unless FSF now officially supports boycott - something I have not heard of yet[1]. I still think it is very off-topic for Linux-IL. It is up to the moderators, not to me or anyone else, to pass a ruling. [1] I checked the FSF site and didn't find anything related. I checked the organization's 990 financial form (the latest available - for 2009) that states that FSF has a written conflict of interest policy. I could not find such policy on the net (it probably should not necessarily be there). Chag sameach, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
