[Fsf-friends] US politics to FOSS!!

Vikram Vincent|ವಿಕ್ರಂ ವಿನ್ವೆಂಟ್ vincentvikram@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Wed Mar 21 21:31:42 IST 2007


Hi again,

On 21/03/07, Nishan Naseer <nishan.naseer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/21/07, Vivek Khurana <hiddenharmony at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > * Who's not eligible to participate as a student in Google Summer of
> > Code?
> > > *
> > >
> > > Google employees, interns, contractors, family members, or citizens of
> > > Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar (Burma), with whom
> we
> > > are
> > > prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in commerce, are ineligible to
> > > participate. Mentoring organizations that are taking part in *Google
> > > Summer
> >
> >
> > Sounds fine to me. SoC involves making payments to  participating
> students
> > and should be under US taxation law. If US law prohibits any commercial
> > activities with these states, then Google can debar citizens of
> mentioned
> > states from participating.  Pay any amount to a person in lie of work is
> a
> > commercial activity.
> >
> > I don't see politics here.
> >
> > regards
> > VK
> > --
>
>
> I would say, There is politics in anything !


I second this. Economics and politics are two sides of the same coin.

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