[Fsf-friends] SLYNUX - Gaining Cheap Popularity

[Krishna Pagadala]

Most of the reporters are clueless about computers,
and come to interview Sarath just because it makes a
"good" news item. I dont think they have any interest
presenting the issue well.

If anybody wants to understand the media, please
watch/read Manufacturing Consent. 
http://chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=32
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375714499/qid=1119972544/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-2201387-8431267?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

As for trademark infringement, please cut Sarath some
slack. Do we want to live in permission culture or in
free culture? http://www.free-culture.cc/

Regarding renaming xmms to linamp, again do we want to
take permission from the powers that be every time? Is
it a world worth striving for? living in? 

I think Sarath has all the rights to do what he has
done.

And regarding the nonsense of piracy, please read
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy

-Krishna



--- "Dileep M. Kumar" <dileep@gmx.net> wrote:

> Hello GNUHeads,
> 
> I just saw a program (samakalikam) in Kairali TV.
> They were showing
> Sharat Lakshman and his newly developed OS "SLYNUX".
> I hope you all also
> read this mail.. Sharat.
> 
> We had lot of discussions on this topic some months
> back. At last Sharat
> himself told us that he just remastered knoppix
>
(http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-January/002756.html).
> But right from the news in Hindu, he claims that he
> build an OS based on
> linux and it is user-friendly like Windows. This is
> making false
> impression in majority of public (who are non-IT
> people).
> 
> In TV program he was telling that he renamed xmms to
> linamp and gaim to
> slynux messenger so that people who come from
> windows world understand
> easily. Does these products allow to change their
> name like this. Also
> names like My computer, My documents are trademark
> of Microsoft, IAC. He
> uses these terms to make SLYNUX mimic like windows.
> These are trademark
> infringement. 
> His new site www.slynux.co.nr has proofs
> (screenshots) to support this.
> 
> He now invite the community to join the slynux
> development. This can put
> others also in danger. 
> 
> What is your goal, sharat ? If you want to advocate
> the advantage of FS,
> this is not a good way, IMO. Hackers from different
> part of the world
> work hard to achieve this goal, join them. See
> distros like Mandrake,
> Fedora, Ubuntu ... 
> 
> Just renaming the efforts of those hackers and
> gaining cheap popularity
> is bad. May be you are too young to understand this.
> Atleast your
> parents (or the people who support you) should
> understand this. You are
> really insulting the hackers who build knoppix and
> other GNU tools
> bundled with it. 
> 
> If you are a real hacker, join with savannah or
> similar group of
> hackers. 
> 
> Regards
> --
>
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