Re: A Fribidi alternative?

["VisualMind" <visualmind at php dot net>]

Salam again,

well.. I didn't mean to ask about the meaning of the boycott; I myself 
beleive that free software have to be execluded as they're science materials, 
but my question was to explore the others opinions (as I've already mentioned 
in my prev. email).. 
it's because I faced several aggressive opinions from people who attack any 
thing has (or might have) a jewish hand! and thus I wanted to know the 
opinions of people here in the mailing list since most of you are aware of 
the values of opensource software and possibly faced similar cases.

Regards,
Salah Faya


> Salam,
> Your question means that you don't understand boycott, it is not to stop
> using free or GPL's software, it is to stop helping Israeli 
> Occupation to make money to kill more and more Palestinian and i 
> don't think that you are helping them in doing that by using free or 
> open source software.
> 
> VisualMind wrote:
> 
> >well, you're right about the funny matter of paying attention to that as 
it's
> >so obvious there cannot be any suing cases although that's not my point..
> >I just thought may be we can avoid using it if we already have our own
> >alternative but if we don't I will have to use it and ignore their weird
> >political fanaticism.
> >
> >btw I've some question regarding similar cases, Are those free (ie.
> >opensource) software execluded from the known boycott? by considering them
> >science materials? I just need everyones opinions
> >
> >
> >
> >>Salam,
> >>Fribidi is good enough, there's no need to reinvent the wheel, it
> >>would be a disservice to yourself and it would certainly not bother
> >>anyone else but those who would have to code it again. The good news
> >>is: it is LGPL, so who cares about what someone who contributed a
> >>couple of lines of code to it might say? Seriously, you should have
> >>just laughed at his suggestion. I doubt that many Arabs would feel
> >>bound by any limitations Israelis could try to put in OSS licenses
> >>about them, and vice-versa (do you see an Algerian in a court in
> >>Haifa against someone who violated his prohibition to use his OSS by
> >>an Israeli, or symmetrically, an Israeli in Khartoum sueing an Arab
> >>over an OSS license violation?:):)) Yallah, just ignore that, it's
> >>unnecesary noise.
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "VisualMind" <visualmind at php dot net>
> >>To: <general at arabeyes dot org>
> >>Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 3:10 PM
> >>Subject: A Fribidi alternative?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>I was following the Fribidi php extension http://www.php.net/fribidi
> >>>so I thought I may need to use the opensource project
> >>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/fribidi
> >>>
> >>>but it seemed to me that authors have some contempt against Arabic
> >>>
> >>>
> >>countries,
> >>
> >>
> >>>or that's what I think ( eg: 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
> >>>thread_id=2747434&forum_id=3189 ) so I thought may be I could find 
another
> >>>Arabic-authored solution as an alternative for fribidi; could any one 
help
> >>>
> >>>
> >>me
> >>
> >>
> >>>about it?
> >>>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>Salah Faya
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