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Re: eGovOS conference in D.C.; I'm not attending that


From: Stanley A. Klein
Subject: Re: eGovOS conference in D.C.; I'm not attending that
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:56:46

A good advocate, like a good chess player, thinks several moves ahead.


Stan Klein



At 05:34 AM 2/10/2003 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>    We don't want the headlines to be "Academic freedom is OK for
controversial
>    racists but not for Microsoft,"  "Whatever happened to the first
amendment
>    -- George Washington University charged with bias against unpopular views
>    at conference,"  "Microsoft is right, Free Software is UnAmerican charge
>    Microsoft supporters in Congress after Microsoft denied right to speak at
>    free/open-source software conference,"
>
>Advocates must never be timid about what their opponents will say
>about them.  That way lies fatal weakness.  These accusations would be
>easily refuted, and we will refute them.
>
>                                           "Government employees ordered to
>    withdraw from conference committee and drop involvement with Free
Software
>    after controversy over rejection of Microsoft as speaker at conference."
>
>If they did, we could use it to great effect: the US government
>insists that free software events must offer a platform to a convicted
>corporate felon.  It would play especially well overseas where people
>increasingly hate the US government for many reasons.
>
>I wish that the opposition inside the US government were so overt.
>
>




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