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| DATE | 2003-02-10 |
| FROM | From: "Stanley A. Klein"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: eGovOS conference in D.C.; I'm not attending that
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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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