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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Why the boycott of Macintoshes?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.163905.12267@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:39:05 GMT
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- In article <rwm.715902814@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca> rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond) writes:
- >>about ideas that it didn't even originate. But that's no reason to go
- >>dumping core on its employees, who are not in control of what's going
- > Funny - I wish I had a better memory, but I vaguely remember there being
- >people up in arms about a donation made by the maffia. Something about
- >'blood money' being donated is still 'blood money', and by accepting it you
- >are condoning the practices (robbing, murder, drug pushing, whatever) that
- >helped to 'earn' that money.
-
- At the very least, this could only possibly apply to people who started working
- for Apple after the GNU boycott was publicized. It is difficult to just quit
- a job, especially for people with a family to support; since it is not possible
- to just quit a job without harm, a better analogy is to someone being
- blackmailed by the Mafia. Someone who quits their job at Apple is harmed by
- the loss of income; someone who tries to get back at the Mafia is harmed by
- the loss of an arm, leg, business, etc. If you tell someone to retaliate
- against the Mafia, and they reply that if they do the Mafia will burn down
- their business, are you "condoning their practices" if you treat them like it's
- _their_ moral failing?
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
-
- Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
- INTERNET: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
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