<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Agreed Raj. I just wanted to point out that "King is naked"<br>Kannan<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 12/15/08, Raj Mathur <i><raju@linux-delhi.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Raj Mathur <raju@linux-delhi.org><br>Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Use of Windows by some speakers<br>To: fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in<br>Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 9:03 PM<br><br><pre>On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:<br>> Your mail is full of vague insinuations and accusations.<br>> [snip]<br><br>What keeps me going is that this dialogue is permitted (and perhaps even <br>encouraged) on this mailing list.<br><br>I don't know whether or not you (the FSF Board) sneaked in, or made lots <br>of money, or constitute a mafia, or are really MS employees in <br>disguise.
Without more information one way or the other, I can't make <br>any judgement on these matters. However, I can judge what I see, and I <br>appreciate the fact that this discussion is happening on this forum, <br>and I hope it continues to happen until matters are resolved (or unless <br>people start making personal smears to prove their points, at which <br>stage the discussion becomes meaningless anyway).<br><br>One request to those accusing the Board (or members of the Board): let's <br>please discuss matters in the light of what is better for free software <br>in this country, rather than in the light of specific incidents which, <br>while they may have left a bad taste in peoples' mouths, are by <br>themselves only tangentially relevant to the long-term goal of freedom. <br>If you believe that the Board isn't doing enough to foster FOSS, or is <br>actually having a negative impact on the growth of freedom in India, <br>please bring out your
reasons for that and I for one will support your <br>cause whole-heartedly. FUD, on the other hand, is a weapon employed by <br>the weak to undermine their opponent, and unfortunately using it makes <br>one's arguments appear just that: weak; facts rather than FUD is what <br>we need.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>-- Raju<br>-- <br>Raj Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/<br> GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F<br>PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves<br>_______________________________________________<br>Fsf-friends mailing list<br>Fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in<br>http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>