[Fsf-friends] Free software best suited for UI card project

[Vivek Varghese Cherian]

>
> Naturally, the movement finds Microsoft’s proposal to undertake the project
> ‘disturbing.’ While on one hand — a write up in the FSMK newsletter claims —
> Microsoft’s involvement would sabotage a state’s, and by default its
> citizen’s, right to control the software on which the most crucial data
> would sit, it also paints an alarming picture of the IT giant’s associations
> with the US government and slips in the suggestion that it would let the
> Americans sabotage the whole network as a part of a cyber attack if things
> come down to that.
>


The article in Deccan Herald was based on something which FSMK said
and FSFMK was founded by one well known leftist sympathizer. No prizes
for guessing the name.


The article which you quoted from Deccan Herald itself says,

quote

If we exclude certain extremist portions of the FSMK’s case against
Microsoft, especially the erroneous portrayal of the IT company as an
arm of the US government and a dirty capitalist establishment, much of
its argument makes sense.

unquote


Why are you equating Microsoft = Americans/American Government ?

RMS is an American, so is EMS and so is Linus (at least these days)
and so are all the staff of FSF Boston and so are countless hackers ,
so are they all part of the 'American sabotage'. ?

One small request: Kindly keep Leftist/Communist  propaganda off this list.

I am a FOSS software supporter from Cochin, Kerala and I find your
distorted argument that Freedom is something that the Americans are
about to steal from the rest of the world using Microsoft and your
quoting of FSFMK as nothing more than leftist propaganda and request
you to refrain from such fact distorting tactics on this list.

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