[Fsf-friends] SLYNUX - Gaining Cheap Popularity

[Laxminarayan Kamath]

On 6/28/05, Laxminarayan Kamath <kamathln@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/05, Joe Steeve <joe_steeve@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 10:35, Dileep M. Kumar wrote:
> > > But right from the news in Hindu, he claims that he build an OS based on
>>>...........
> > think we can actually blame him with anything. Its just unfortunate that...
> Exactly.. The scenario is such that the most people away from the
> s/w industry  take software for granted, without considering the
Sorry I was typing in a hurry and made many mistakes... almost made it
unreadable. here is an attempt at editing it:
       
    Exactly.. The scenario is such that the most people away from the
s/w industry  take software for granted, without considering the
license... When a non-industrial Indian installs software , they just
press "next" when the License page is displayed.. Just as their
hardware vendor or the next door "computer guru" had taught them. And
for those who doread the license (may be if they have nothing else to
read and bored ;-) ),they dont care all the rules because for most of
them avoiding taxes and law is a matter of business and pride. It is a
small percentage of "educated" population who really care about real
education, ethics and the society. As such kind of people have
flooded, the communication between the real ethical/social people with
thirst for knowledge always gets either poisoned or blocked by the
other "majority" .As such, even for a person who is very ethical who
prays to God, you can find him using Pirated Software with all the
good glory going on in his mind about "software" and "progress"  with
the ignorance of Licensing.. You can find educational institution
being opened up by lighting a Lamp in front of the Lord, providing IT
education,.... on Pirated Software. In such a place where people are
ignorant that ethics also apply very much to "new technology", you can
find plenty of such mistakes.Those like that of Sarath.
        In a different angle, there are these so called "Computer
People" and "Computer scientists", upon whom other people used to look
as Gods. Their word was always final. These "Computer people" or in
newer terms "hardware vendors", when questioned about the dialog box
about the license, just used to say "just ignore it .. press next".
Their words were final. They were bound to press next. And for the
hardware vendors, they too were affected with the pride of avoiding
the law. It used to (and still does) give them the feling "the law
doesnt apply to me. i am the King". They dont realise themselves as
part of the community, or at least they think their actions do not
affect the society. And for those few who did, were crushed by the
business of those who didnt.



> 
> Sory for getting carried away from the topic a little. There was a
> stack overflow in my emotions module.
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