On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Vikram Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me try to sketch out a possibility you may not have thought about... > > 2009/1/3 V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]>: >> The speakers included the IT minister from West Bengal and N. Ram. It is >> interesting that the West Bengal minister was invited though that state >> has still not decided to favour Free Software. Even the local minister >> was not invited, if I remember correctly. N. Ram is a know CPIM >> sympathiser and a person I respect for the way he runs the publication. >> (You may interpret this also as CPIM bashing, but I can't help it.) All >> this makes it appear to an impartial observer that the organisers were >> CPIM sympathisers or activists. Nothing wrong in organising such a >> conference. The wrong thing they did was to announce the formation of a >> chapter of FSFI without even telling FSFI. They also used the FSFI logo >> in their newsletter, as though to indicate that FSFI was involved. But >> they did not announce it in fsf-friends or other mailing lists of the >> community. Hope you don't justify that too. > > <possibility> > Some youth who were inspired by the ideals of free software and > FSF/FSFI wanted to contribute their efforts to building the free > software movement in TN. They were not aware about FSFI's policy on > local chapters(I can safely say that not many knew that until > recently) and did not know that they would have stones thrown at them > for using the FSFI logo and also branded as "misguided activists of a > political party".
Happy to Know that Kiran Chandra, One FSF India Board of Director was also part of the ''people who are not aware of FSFI's Policy" -- Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs. Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds. _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [email protected] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
