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- From: coonstot@kimbark.uchicago.edu (charles orville onstott)
- Subject: Re: FSF vs Apple -- please think again
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.014935.1946@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:49:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.160747.19249@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan12.173830.18153@ornl.gov> de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
- >writes apropos of the boycott of Apple by the FSF, allegedly initiated
- >in order not to "waste FSF resources supporting a company with
- >particularly anti-FSF business practices":
- >
- >>It's not a squabble. Please don't ask them (us) to compromise their (our)
- >>beliefs for your convenience. You bought the Mac, implicitly supporting
- >>Apple's business practices--now live with your decision. Keep the Mac and
- >>forget GNU software or replace the Mac. The choice is yours.
- >
- >How interesting. I would like to find out to find the extent to which
- >the Foundation's pursuit of its beliefs in this matter conflicts with
- >its tax-exempt status, insofar as it surely contradicts its alleged
- >charitable ends. Is there a lawyer in the house?
-
- This is silly. A charity is under no obligation to provide
- for everyone all of the time. A charity may elect to dedicate
- its time and resources to any goal however it is decided by
- that charity's corporation. Of course, under your current reasoning,
- we should call into question any pro-life charity for not contributing
- to pro-choice groups.
-
- >
- >cordially,
- >mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- >"Les beaulx bastisseurs nouveaulx de pierres mortes ne sont escriptz
- >en mon livre de vie. Je ne bastis que pierres vives: ce sont hommes."
-
- BCnya,
- Charles O. Onstott, III
-
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- --
- Charles O. Onstott, III (coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu)
- Graduate Student in Religion and the Human Sciences
- The University of Chicago Divinity School
- "[T]he problem of history cannot be solved by avoiding it." (B. McGinn)
-