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This is as silly as not buying an Apple computer because you don’t like what Chuq posts on his blog, or as silly as not supporting the EFF because you don’t like Cory’s SF novels. What Cory posts on Boing Boing is his own work, and nothing to do with the EFF.

there’s actually a significant difference here between my blog and Cory’s (and Scoble’s).

Cory’s DRM discussions are directly tied to the work he’s been hired by the EFF to do.

Scoble’s blogging about Microsoft ties directly back to his work for Microsoft.

My blog rarely has anything to do with discussing Apple policies (and usually, when I cross that line, I regret it). I pretty carefully avoid going down that path these days.

So, if I chose not to support EFF because I don’t like Cory’s novels, Ian would be correct here — that would be like not buying apple stuff because of my blog. but in fact, Cory talks a lot about things that directly relate to his work with EFF, in a way that clearly indicates that’s the position and strategy he’s taking in these issues FOR the EFF.

On the other hand, I expect there ARE people who don’t buy Apple because of my personality. It wouldn’t be the first time. I also know others who’ve joined the firm because of it. A strong personality and a willingness to take opinions does that. Just like, I’m sure, Cory’s high visibility on these issues attracts people to the EFF.

Just not me.

And you know what? that’s fine. I’m sure the EFF doesn’t need me or my support, either.

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  • http://technovia.typepad.com Ian Betteridge

    Cory’s DRM discussions are no more tied to his work than your general pushing of the Mac platform is tied to yours, Chuq. You’re a Mac user, as well as an Apple employee, and would, no doubt, talk about Macs here whether you were an Apple employee or not.
    The same is true for Cory. He’s virulently anti-DRM not because the EFF pays him to be so, but because that’s his intellectual position – and would be whether or not he was an EFF employee.
    But more importantly, the EFF isn’t paying him to write BoingBoing (I don’t anyone’s paying for BoingBoing!). When he’s writing there, he’s not writing on behalf of the EFF: He’s writing on behalf of himself. The simple test is this: If he stopped writing for BoingBoing, would the EFF stop paying him? No, of course not.
    You’re right, you rarely write about Apple. But Cory doesn’t write about the EFF, either: he writes about some of the same issues the EFF campaigns about, in a personal capacity.