RMS was bullied into canceling his Israeli University talks by his (paying) Palestinian hosts. He explains here:
http://stallman.org/articles/palestine-trip.html Can we PLEASE stop playing politics now? This is NOT the right forum, and we're none of us any good at it. RMS himself is a great example. J. [full disclosure; I use and enjoy Linux Mint, just as I enjoy the music of Richard Wagner. Bad people can create good things] On 20 November 2017 at 12:45, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > Complementing the time line: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:56:13AM +0200, Geoffrey Mendelson wrote: > > 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. > > > > 2010: > > Jan: Oracle buys Sun (owner of OpenOffice.org). Renames it > OracleOpenOffice. > > Sep: The majority of the developers community forks. LibreOffice is > born. They form The Document Foundation. > > 2011: > > Apr: Oracle annonces it will abandon development of OpenOffice. At the > time LibreOffice has already turned out to be a more vibrant > alternative. But there was still something of a development community > behind the Oracle project (and a third, competing, one, led by former > OO.o developers). > > Jun: Oracle announces it will move OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation. > > > 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. > > RMS visited Israel in Jul-2011. He also gave two talks in Israel proper, > though not one of them was in a university. > > > > > Oracle was going to divest its interest in Open Office. The original plan > > was to donate it to the FSF. > > Huh? Have you any evidence of that? Any mails exchanged from people at > Oracle with the FSF or whoever? > > At the time IBM put pressure on Oracle to donate the code to Apache > instead of following the developers community (who eventually formed The > Document Foundation). The FSF had no real affiliation with the practical > fork of OO.o (ooo-build / go-oo), that has already established TDF as a > legal entity. > > See e.g. > http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-the-heck-is-happening- > with-openoffice-update/ > > > > > Ellison (obviously upset by RMS's boycott) donates Open Office to the > Apache > > Foundation. > > This is not so clear to me. > > -- > 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 > -- -- Jeremy Hoyland jhoyl...@gmail.com
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