[Fsf-friends] Mumbai cyber cafe license requirement makes Microsoft OS mandatory

[Kiran Chandra]

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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