[Fsf-friends] Re: user group assn.

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
> As pointed out by Pai, NASSCOM has a charter to be
> watchdog for legal use of software, it an assocation
> that _enforceses_.An organisation that works for Free
> Software should have its goal to educate not enforce.

Sometimes the freedom might need to be enforced. A case in point.
http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/s-asia-it/archive/2001/07/msg00004.html

When cases of GPL violation happens of Free software developed outside the 
country, the original software developers are quite helpless in doing much 
about it in India rather than put up notices on their web pages, and a few 
emails.

We need a watchdog in India to see the the freedom of software is 
maintained. Since the software is owned by the community, there is right 
now no formal body to watch for the software.

The other point of view might be that we concentrate on people "giving" 
only, rather than people "taking" and not "giving" back.

- Sandip


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