On Jun 15, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Ira Abramov wrote:
you know, there IS a logical falacy of guilt by association.
There may be, but there is a clear case here, RMS as president of the FSF has, ex officio (from his office, meaning as the president, not his desk) said that he was boycotting. This makes it FSF policy.
I suggest we stop and call on the FSF spokespeople to give their opinion on the matter and maybe resolve it otherwise.
They already have, the President of the FSF has said so. As the President of the FSF. Is there anyone more appropriate to be their spokesperson? It's now up to them to say that different or not.
This is however, the best vindication of project GNU. You can boycott the FSF, you can sue them, have their nonprofit status revoked, you can burn RMS in effigy, declare him persona non grata in Israel, do anything you want to him and the FSF and still use GPL'ed software for free, and get all the updates and source code for free.
To paraphrase the movie "My Blue Heaven", "This is the worst case scenario of RMS's dream".
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