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Here's my letter to Richard M.Stallman, founder of FSF and author of Emacs editor, of which I have been a passionate user for 10 years at least! But no more! Find out why:

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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:33:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Yaakov Shlafman" <shlaf@yahoo.com>
Subject: Why I will stop using emacs from now on
To: rms@stallman.org




Dear Mr. Stallman,

I have been fanatic user of your Emacs editor for years. Also I was a
passionate supporter of your FSF movement and the GNU stuff etc. Until today.

Today I have accidentally run into your web page and found there a lot of
political articles and links that demonstrate your unambiguously pro-Arab and
anti-Israeli position. Therefore I cannot longer consider myself as your
supporter. As an Israeli, I cannot be in sympathy with ideas and works of a
person who denies the right of Israel to exist and defent herself. That is of
course, a naive position, but I couldn't resist making that decision, because
this was such a disappointment for me to find out that you are a banal
antisemite and leftist pseudo-liberal. Sorry for these harsh words!

I will stop using any GNU software, whenever possible. Although this my
boycott will not do any harm to you, but at least it will make me feel a bit
better.

// Yaakov Shlafman,
Israel.

PS. Below there's a link to an article by an Italian journalist, Fiamma
Nirenstein. This may represent some food for thought for you (I doubt it will
change anything in your biased perception of the Arab-Israeli conflict).

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0703/nirenstein_2003_07_10.php3