[LIG] Re: [FSF India] Re: WB Govt ties up with MSFT

Satyakam Goswami fsf-india@gnu.org.in
Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:52:41 +0530 (IST)


I agree with raju,and hey your arguments with Arun on various lists about GPL
and BSD licenses are paying  off ;-), good draft, i personally could have not
done it better.

cheers
S.Goswami

> Khuzaima,
> 
> While I agree that freedom is the most important facet of Free
> Software, I deliberately omitted mentioning it in the letter.  If you
> notice, I have tried to stay away from any of the following:
> 
> - Controversial issues (e.g. MS' ongoing court case(s))
> - Un-verifiable data
> - Philosophy
> - Opinions
> 
> The idea was to create a document which would present hard facts which
> cannot be debated away.  Philosophy and opinions, by definition, are
> debatable, and I had no intention of letting anyone use one single point in
> the document as a lever to draw attention away from the
> others and make the whole exercise meaningless.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Raju
 


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