[coreboot] [Fwd: Re: Contact Intel]

[Joe]

Come on Richard, enough is enough. No one is talking about racism here. You
are taking this way too far. You have too much time on your hands. Can we
just move on, please.

Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coreboot-bounces+joe=settoplinux.org at coreboot.org [mailto:coreboot-
> bounces+joe=settoplinux.org at coreboot.org] On Behalf Of Richard M Stallman
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:44 AM
> To: Stefan Reinauer
> Cc: corey.osgood at gmail.com; c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net;
> coreboot at coreboot.org
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] [Fwd: Re: Contact Intel]
> 
>> I remember it suddenly got harder talking to a very friendly CPU
>> vendor after they bought a graphics chip vendor, because one guy started
>> running around with a halo, telling that people should not buy from
>> that very graphics chip vendor, in a half-reflected way, similar to those
>> my ancestor countrymen suggested not to buy from certain groups of
>> people.
> 
> As far as I know, I am the only person who protested a graphics chip
> vendor, so this must be intended to refer to me.  Which means it is
> inaccurate.  Omitting my name doesn't make that ok.
> 
> Whether or not you agree with my approach, calling it "half-reflected"
> is sheer name-calling based on ignorance.
> 
> To equate boycotting a company with racism is worse than ignorance.
> It is absurd.
> 
> 
> 
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