<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>I have been following the fsf-friends for the past two or three months.<br>I just need a small clarification.<br>If CPM is supporting FSF then it is "HIJACKING" of FSF .<br>If BJP is supporting FSF then it is acceptance of FSF.<br>Great work.<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 15/3/09, fsf-friends-request@mm.gnu.org.in <i><fsf-friends-request@mm.gnu.org.in></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: fsf-friends-request@mm.gnu.org.in <fsf-friends-request@mm.gnu.org.in><br>Subject: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7<br>To: fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in<br>Date: Sunday, 15 March, 2009, 12:00 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Send Fsf-friends mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in"
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the FOSS Manifesto<br> (Anivar Aravind)<br> 2. RMS article in todays Hindu (Senthil Sundaram (sensunda))<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:02:40 +0530<br>From: Anivar Aravind <<a ymailto="mailto:anivar.aravind@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=anivar.aravind@gmail.com">anivar.aravind@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: [Fsf-friends] Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the<br> FOSS Manifesto<br>To: Greenyouth <<a ymailto="mailto:greenyouth@googlegroups.com" href="/mc/compose?to=greenyouth@googlegroups.com">greenyouth@googlegroups.com</a>>, Principal Support List<br> of FSF-India <<a ymailto="mailto:fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in" href="/mc/compose?to=fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in">fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in</a>>,
<a ymailto="mailto:smc-discuss@googlegroups.com" href="/mc/compose?to=smc-discuss@googlegroups.com">smc-discuss@googlegroups.com</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:35f96d470903140332t60cc998dvfc7ae6203ddf17ed@mail.gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=35f96d470903140332t60cc998dvfc7ae6203ddf17ed@mail.gmail.com">35f96d470903140332t60cc998dvfc7ae6203ddf17ed@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Venkatesh Hariharan <<a ymailto="mailto:venkyh@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=venkyh@gmail.com">venkyh@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:38 PM<br>Subject: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:network@lists.fosscom.in" href="/mc/compose?to=network@lists.fosscom.in">network@lists.fosscom.in</a><br><br><br>Dear Friends,<br><br>Key sections of the FOSS manifesto (Point # 1 on FOSS in education,
#<br>4 on open standards, #5 on encouraging freely shareable, FOSS based<br>knowledge repositories like Wikipedia in Indian languages), have been<br>strongly articulated in the BJP's IT vision document that was unveiled<br>today by BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Shri LK Advani. The 40<br>page vision document is at:<br><br><a href="http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/images/stories/it-vision.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/images/stories/it-vision.pdf</a><br><br>The press release is at:<br><br><a href="http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/content/view/799/281/" target="_blank">http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/content/view/799/281/</a><br><br>I am also enclosing my blog on this subject:<br><br>Venky<br>=====<br><br><a href="http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/03/bjps-it-vision-supports-open-source-and.html" target="_blank">http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/03/bjps-it-vision-supports-open-source-and.html</a><br><br>Saturday, March 14, 2009<br>BJP's IT Vision
supports open source and open standards<br><br>The BJP, the largest opposition ?in India has released an IT Vision<br>document that endorses open source and open standards. Many of the<br>points mentioned in the FOSS Manifesto for India that we put up online<br>last week have been incorporated in this document.<br><br>This document was unveiled by none other than Shri. LK Advani, the<br>BJP's candidate for Prime Minister. I did a quick read of the 40 page<br>document and am impressed with how thorough and comprehensive it is.<br>As a long time supporter of free and open source software, I am<br>delighted to see a major Indian political party endorse it. However, I<br>am even more delighted to see that this endorsement is rooted in a<br>comprehensive vision for India's development. A big chunk of the<br>credit for this document should go to Shri. Sudheendra Kulkarni (an<br>alumnus of IIT Bombay) and Shri Prodyut Bora (an alumnus of IIM<br>Ahmedabad).
Shri Kulkarni was advisor to Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee<br>when Vajpayee was prime Minister of India and Shri Bora is Head of the<br>IT Cell of the BJP.<br><br>I was happy to see that the Digital Colonization theme that my friend,<br>Jaijit Bhattacharya of Sun talks about has been incorporated in this<br>document. Apart from the FOSS Manifesto, some of my key passions on<br>open standards (that we don't pay for standards like weights and<br>measures in the physical world, so why should we pay for standards in<br>the digital world?) have been reflected. Also, as a co-founder of<br>IndLinux.org which we started in 2000 in an attempt to bridge the<br>digital divide, I am happy to see that the BJP has promised to create<br>a National Mission for Indian Language Computing.<br>The CPI(M), another national party in India has always been a strong<br>supporter of our stand on open source, open standards and our fight<br>against software patents. We are hopeful
that other political parties<br>will also take cognizance of the FOSS Manifesto and incorporate the<br>same into their IT plans for India.<br><br>With the country scheduled to go to polls next month, we now have a<br>broad consensus emerging around the use of open source and open<br>standards. This is great news for all of us who believe in free and<br>open source software!<br>_______________________________________________<br>Network mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Network@lists.fosscom.in" href="/mc/compose?to=Network@lists.fosscom.in">Network@lists.fosscom.in</a><br><a href="http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in" target="_blank">http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in</a><br><br><br><br>-- <br>Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free<br>Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs.<br>Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at
McDonalds.<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:56:00 +0530<br>From: "Senthil Sundaram (sensunda)" <<a ymailto="mailto:sensunda@cisco.com" href="/mc/compose?to=sensunda@cisco.com">sensunda@cisco.com</a>><br>Subject: [Fsf-friends] RMS article in todays Hindu<br>To: "Free Software Users Group - Bangalore"<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in" href="/mc/compose?to=fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in">fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in</a>>, "Principal Support List of FSF-India"<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in" href="/mc/compose?to=fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in">fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in</a>><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:C1F024B2AFA0CE4CB8E93810BD9CAA540869A37D@xmb-blr-414.apac.cisco.com"
href="/mc/compose?to=C1F024B2AFA0CE4CB8E93810BD9CAA540869A37D@xmb-blr-414.apac.cisco.com">C1F024B2AFA0CE4CB8E93810BD9CAA540869A37D@xmb-blr-414.apac.cisco.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>hi,<br> <br>The interview taken by the Hindu during RMS Bangalore visit in todays<br>Hindu<br> <br>"IBM's recently-released Microsoft-Free Desktop, regarded as significant<br>in non-proprietary circles, he says is "interesting" but questions IBM's<br>skirting the ethical issue of freedom. "<br> <br><a href="http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/03/15/stories/2009031550070200.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/03/15/stories/2009031550070200.htm</a><br> <br>-S<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <a href="http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/attachments/20090315/26a8d260/attachment.html"
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