On 11/20/2017 11:20 AM, Vladimir Vainer wrote:
Can you provide more information on Israel-Palestine controversy as
it applies to Open Office?
Time Line:
Arab League passes a boycott of Israel. (this will become important later)
Oslo accords create Palestinian Authority. The PA sends workers and
medical patients to Israel, gets most of its water, electricity, food,
cooking gas, building supplies, etc from Israel (no boycott).
Palestinians bombard Sderot with rockets and mortars.
Sderot builds underground kindergarden (gan)
Larry Ellison (CEO of Oracle) donates money to extend kindergarden with
underground playground, one of many things in Israel he funded.
Palestinain businessman invites (and I assume pays) RMS to speak on
FOSS. He requires that RMS does not speak in Israel or meet with
israelis on that trip. Note that RMS could have flown to Aman, taken a
taxi to the Alenby Bridge and a Palestinian taxi to where he wanted to
in the P.A. without ever entering Israel.
RMS chooses to fly to Ben Gurion and enter the PA via Israel.
RMS announces, using his email account as President of the FSF that he
will honor the (nonexistent (see above)) boycott of Israel.
Oracle was going to divest its interest in Open Office. The original
plan was to donate it to the FSF.
Ellison (obviously upset by RMS's boycott) donates Open Office to the
Apache Foundation.
almost irrelevant notes, but provide context:
There is no PA boycott of Israel. The Palestinian BDS movement was
created and is run by a graduate student at Tel Aviv University.
RMS did in fact meet with Israelis (and I don't remember if there were
formal speeches) on that trip.
Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel
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