[linux-elitists] Defective By Design

[Ruben Safir]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:14:41PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Aaron Porter (atporter@primate.net):
> 
> > Is it just me, or is it the FSF that seems to have gone defective?
> > Their latest anti-iPhone campaign[1] crosses some lines I'm not too pleased
> > with. They're urging people to setup a meatspace denial of service attack
> > against the "Genius Bars" in Apple Stores world wide in an effort to
> > educate Apple about [how] its product is "restricting your freedoms".
> 
> The FSF go through recurring cycles of either being spot-on in their
> public actions or making you shake your head.  It probably depends on
> volunteer staffing.
> 


It might.  I've been personally bitten by that bug where the only
volunteers you can get are truly on the lunatic fringe and do more
damage than help to a cause.

OTOH, this might also emulate directly from Richard.  He's been
increasingly upset with how hardware can restrict users and he might be
just ahead of the curve.  I doubt he'd promote a denial of service
attack either in the Apple Stores on otherwise.

First of all, Richard doesn't believe he has that kind of man power.


Ruben


> The initiative you cite appears to be that of Matt Lee, "Chief Webmaster
> for the GNU Project and Campaigns Manager at the Free Software
> Foundation".  
> 
> http://mat.tl/ee/
> http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/User:Mattl
> http://www.advogato.org/person/mattl/
> http://identi.ca/mattl
> 
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