It is the policy of the CPM to have an eye on the emerging groups and hijack it.To my knowledge desabhimani is coming still from windows
2009/3/19 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS <everlovingyo...@gmail.com> > Also calls for "Strong alience with the Terrorist groups"Please avoid > politics. > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Nishan Naseer <nishan.nas...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: vinay ವಿನಯ್ <vi...@itforchange.net> >> Date: 2009/3/18 >> Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] CPI(M) manifesto calls for promotion of Free >> and Open Source Software (FOSS) >> To: il...@lists.linux-delhi.org, ilug-cal-disc...@list.ilug-cal.org >> >> >> Dear All, >> >> The political support for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) continues >> to increase. >> >> The CPI(M) manifesto released on the 16th of March calls for the >> promotion of FOSS. The manifesto can be accessed at >> http://www.cpim.org/manifesto.pdf >> >> Following are some of the highlights of the policy - >> - Promoting FOSS and other such new technologies, which are free from >> monopoly ownership through copyrights or patents; >> - Revamping the functioning of the Patent offices to ensure strict >> adherence to the Indian Patent Act; Stop training and orientation of >> Indian Patent office personnel by the US and European Patent offices >> >> These above measures are critical to support the public education >> system, local economy and the knowledge commons and counter neo-liberal >> pressures that aim to privatize the public information/knowledge domain. >> >> The CPI(M) has been a traditional supporter of free software, the >> comprehensive IT programs in Kerala, including in the public school >> system (http://itschool.gov.in/otherprograms.php#6) is based on FOSS. >> With key parties from both the left and the right end of the political >> spectrum endorsing FOSS, the Congress is left as the only major >> national party which is yet to formally take a position on FOSS. One >> hopes that the Congress too will soon extend its support for free >> software when it releases its own manifesto next week, and explicitly >> acknowledge the significant political, socio-cultural and economic >> advantages of FOSS over proprietary software platforms (see >> http://public-software.in/FOSS-manifesto for a call from the Network of >> the FOSS Community in India to the political parties, to recognise the >> advantages of FOSS in their election manifestos). >> >> Thanks, >> Vinay. >> _______________________________________________ >> Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list >> ilug-cal-disc...@list.ilug-cal.org >> http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > My Site > http://everlovingyouth.googlepages.com > My Technical Write > http://acutedeveloper.blogspot.com > -- My Site http://everlovingyouth.googlepages.com My Technical Write http://acutedeveloper.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
