[Fsf-friends] Comrades’ new-found love with IT

[Anivar Aravind]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me try to sketch out a possibility you may not have thought about...
>
> 2009/1/3 V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsf at gmail.com>:
>> The speakers included the IT minister from West Bengal and N. Ram. It is
>> interesting that the West Bengal minister was invited though that state
>> has still not decided to favour Free Software. Even the local minister
>> was not invited, if I remember correctly. N. Ram is a know CPIM
>> sympathiser and a person I respect for the way he runs the publication.
>> (You may interpret this also as CPIM bashing, but I can't help it.) All
>> this makes it appear to an impartial observer that the organisers were
>> CPIM sympathisers or activists. Nothing wrong in organising such a
>> conference. The wrong thing they did was to announce the formation of a
>> chapter of FSFI without even telling FSFI. They also used the FSFI logo
>> in their newsletter, as though to indicate that FSFI was involved. But
>> they did not announce it in fsf-friends or other mailing lists of the
>> community. Hope you don't justify that too.
>
> <possibility>
> Some youth who were inspired by the ideals of free software and
> FSF/FSFI wanted to contribute their efforts to building the free
> software movement in TN. They were not aware about FSFI's policy on
> local chapters(I can safely say that not many knew that until
> recently) and did not know that they would have stones thrown at them
> for using the FSFI logo and also branded as "misguided activists of a
> political party".

Happy to Know that Kiran Chandra, One FSF India Board of Director was
also part of the ''people who are not aware of FSFI's Policy"

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Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs.
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