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In article <1993Jan12.160747.19249@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>In article <1993Jan12.173830.18153@ornl.gov> de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
>writes apropos of the boycott of Apple by the FSF, allegedly initiated
>in order not to "waste FSF resources supporting a company with
>particularly anti-FSF business practices":
>
>>It's not a squabble.  Please don't ask them (us) to compromise their (our)
>>beliefs for your convenience.  You bought the Mac, implicitly supporting
>>Apple's business practices--now live with your decision.  Keep the Mac and
>>forget GNU software or replace the Mac.  The choice is yours.
>
>How interesting.  I would like to find out to find the extent to which
>the Foundation's pursuit of its beliefs in this matter conflicts with
>its tax-exempt status, insofar as it surely contradicts its alleged
>charitable ends.  Is there a lawyer in the house?

This is silly.  A charity is under no obligation to provide
for everyone all of the time.  A charity may elect to dedicate
its time and resources to any goal however it is decided by
that charity's corporation.  Of course, under your current reasoning,
we should call into question any pro-life charity for not contributing
to pro-choice groups.

>
>cordially,
>mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
>"Les beaulx bastisseurs nouveaulx de pierres mortes ne sont escriptz
>en mon livre de vie.  Je ne bastis que pierres vives: ce sont hommes."

BCnya,
  Charles O. Onstott, III



-- 
Charles O. Onstott, III                         (coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu)
Graduate Student in Religion and the Human Sciences
The University of Chicago Divinity School
        "[T]he problem of history cannot be solved by avoiding it." (B. McGinn)