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The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility are holding a membership
drive contest, in which they offer both Apple equipment and MacIntosh-based
software as prizes.

CPSR takes no position, as far as I have seen, on software copyright issues.
But I cannot see these issues as being orthogonal to other areas of
responsiblity in the computer field.  I'm sure a large percentage of CPSR
members support the League for Programming Freedom's boycott, or are at least
sympathetic to it.  So I have decided to write CPSR a polite letter asking
them to avoid offering any more such prizes, and I'm posting this message to
encourage other people to do the same.

I realize that public organizations like CPSR have conflicting pulls on them,
and have to be very careful about what battles they fight and where they have
to remain neutral.  Is it neutral to offer people merchandise that is popular
but controversial?  I can't answer the question.  Let's have some discussion
about it on this newsgroup.

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	Read George's lips -- this war will be a short one.

Andrew Oram                            Concurrent Computer Corporation

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This is not an official statement from Concurrent, but my own opinion.

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