[Fsf-friends] Mumbai cyber cafe license requirement makes
Microsoft OS mandatory
Kiran Chandra
kiran@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Sat Mar 24 19:05:26 IST 2007
Can we get a copy of such a notice ? That will help us in reaching the
cybercafes and explaining them easy.
cheers and regards
kiran
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 10:33 +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> Frederick Noronha wrote:
> > Have just learnt that under the recently announced licensing scheme
> > for the cyber cafes in Mumbai, the Mumbai police under its list of
> > requirement vide point no 14 insists on a copy of Microsoft Open
> > License. This license fee is apparently prohibitive and apparently
> > still unclear on the licensing term for public use, and, restrains
> > cyber cafe operators from choosing
> > any other alternative operating systems. I would like to hear from
> > others who have more details. Specially someone in Mumbai. --FN
>
> I am soon going to meet a few vendors and cyber cafe operators and
> increase among them the awareness that alternatives exist. first
> meeting is taking place tomorrow.
>
> I also want to take this opportunity to inform all the fs supporters in
> every town and city to meet the cyber cafe owners, and give them the
> confidence that alternative technology to run them exists, and they can
> slowly migrate. Also not to neglect are the assemblers, vendors of ICT,
> both software and hardware aspects.
>
> Nagarjuna
>
>
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