---------- കൈമാറിയ സന്ദേശം ---------- അയച്ച വ്യക്തി: Anivar Aravind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> തീയ്യതി: 19 September 2008 4:58 AM വിഷയം: [smc-discuss] Re: [FSUG-Bangalore] A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation? സ്വീകര്ത്താവ്: Free Software Users Group - Bangalore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some updates on this thread ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nagarjuna G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:44 PM Subject: Re: A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation? To: Anivar Aravind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Principal Support List of FSF-India <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] we have asked for a clarification from the organizers. FSF India is not informed by the organizers themselves. Nagarjuna -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: V. Sasi Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Fwd: A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation? To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 12:43 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote: > My questions are Following > > 1.Is this event anyway related with Free Software Foundation? FSF India has not been formally informed of this meeting or the formation of FSF-TN. We came to know only through the website > 2. This news is not announced in any Free Software Mailing lists, > like FSF-Friends, FSF-Tn(http://mm.gnu.org.in//pipermail/fsf-tn/) ILUG > Chennai etc . It is not announced yet in gnu.org.in also. Why This > much secrecy around this? This meeting has nothing to do with FSF India. They have not informed us anything about the meeting, or even about the people who are organising it. I guess they are not interested in getting support from the Free Software community either. > 3.. The above invitation text says "logo and caption for the Free > Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu will be launched" in the function. Is > FSF India decided to start regional FSFs? If yes why this is > organising in a a secret maner? There is no decision to start regional FSFs. They have used the logo of FSF India in their Newsletter which is downloadable. Their use of the logo is, actually, illegal. They have not even informed FSF India > 3. The Invitation text says "The objective of the event will be the > launch of the project for the development of a Tamil Version of the > GNU/ Linux operating system", why there is a need of another > distribution when tamil is well supported in most of the upstream > distributions? . Let it be the work of Tamil Localisation groups. This remains a mystery in view of the surreptitious manner in which they are organising the event. > 4. The contacts provided in the website contact page is not at all > familiar in Free Software Community. And There is no information on > who is organising this event. No one seems to know. We have sent mails to the known addresses to find out who these people are. > On a quick checkup with friends in Chennai, they says it is an event > Organised by Communist Party of India (Marxist) . Thats why the > secrecy. That seems to be true. This is a CPM event and the objective god only knows. > I don't have a problem in a political party supporting free > software cause. But If it is the case i am very suspicious on > following points > 1. The exclusion of the Free Software Movement in Chennai in Organising it, > 2. Creating a body with power structure before Contributing anything . > I dont think a free software Foundation is not needed for releasing a > Localised GNU/Linux Distribution > 3. Secrecy in whole process of a Public event This would appear to be part of an attempt to float a parallel process to take over the Free Software movement in the country. While I too have no objection to anyone helping the Free Software movement in the country or even independently promoting Free Software (as many groups are already doing), what this group is doing is really sabotaging the whole movement itself by causing confusion among FS supporters. This is unethical and could even be illegal (using our logo without our permission). This is very unfortunate. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് - എന്റെ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിനു് എന്റെ ഭാഷ സംരംഭം: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc വെബ്സൈറ്റ് : http://smc.org.in IRC ചാനല് : #smc-project @ freenode പിരിഞ്ഞു പോകാന്: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign
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