On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 09:45:33AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Marc Volovic wrote: >> People, RMS (as well as any other person) is entitled to support, >> adhere, acquiesce or abhor, deny, etc any and all BDS activities. >> >> The man is entitled to his opinion and choice. It is his right as a >> man and as a public figure. > > > Marc, it has to do with US corporate law and practice. In the US, > officers of a corporation are limited in liability for their actions as > corporate officers. What they do as private citizens is different than > what they do as officers of the corporation. > > This is different than Israeli corporate law, where there is much less > of a "corporate veil". > > When they do something as an officer of the corporation, it takes on a > whole new meaning. It is the stated policy of the corportation. > > If RMS as RMS states what he does, as a private citizen, it is free > speech. He is entitled to his opionions and limited by US laws as to > what he can say and where, but those limits are awfully wide (compared > to Israeli ones for example). > > However, once he signs an email as an officer of the FSF, or states it > publicly that he, as representing the FSF is going to support a boycott > (or not) and so on, it is FSF policy. So like it or not, the FSF has now > incorporated the BDS movement into their message. It's not just FREE > Software, it's also support the Palestinians and boycott Israel.
I suggest you go and sue the FSF. > > If RMS wants to vacation in Ramalah, or sun himself on the beaches of > Gaza, he is welcome to. If he does not want to stay in, vist or even > pass through Israel, (He could enter Gaza from Egypt, or the PA from > Jordan), he is welcome to. However as the President of the FSF his > perceived boycott of Israeli institutions is unacceptable, and dilutes > the FSF and it's message. > > Depending upon exactly what he does and does not do, and who provides > the money for his visit, he (and therefore the FSF as he spoke and > speaks for them) may be in volation of US law, and therefore subject to > investigation, tax audits, etc. Quite simply this will not end well for > the FSF. Guys. We have our own local Florian Müller. Listen to him. It's the end of the FSF! -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
