[Fsf-friends] Top Story on Forbes : [RMS] Toppling Linux

[Baishampayan Ghose]

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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 05:35 PM, Ciaran O'Riordan cobbled together
some glyphs to say:
Ciaran,

> What Forbes is doing is unfortunate.
> 
> We can compete against them by writing our own articles.  Here's an article
> I wrote recently:
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/7238
> 
> And I'm writing another now (which I hope will be published tonight).

Yes, I have read your article on kerneltrap. Many thanks for writing
those. I am sure the articles will help a lot in clearing people's
misunderstandings about GPLv3. I would recommend that we all start
writing articles like the one you have written and get them published on
our local magazines, websites or blogs.

> We can also counter them by participating in community discussions where
> people have doubts or misunderstandings about GPLv3.

Well, confusion and misunderstanding is something else. What Forbes did
with this article is a deliberate attempt at defaming rms and the Free
Software movement. It was carefully written slander and nothing else.
The article talked more about the so-called wrong-doings of rms and his
followers than the dangers of GPLv3.
In my opinion we should write a letter to the editor of Forbes
protesting about the article.

Regards,
BG

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Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose at gnu.org.in>
Free Software Foundation of India
http://www.gnu.org.in/

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