[FSF-India] Lead story about FSF India

[K G Kumar]

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Resending, since it didn't appear the first time:

At 03:05 PM 7/5/01 +0530, Ragu wrote:
>I do not know how KG mis-interpreted this and caused this grave mishap !

Please, at least,  give me the benefit of doubt... (If nothing else, you 
did read the original myiris.com story...)

Anyone with an iota of intelligence, who reads the main story, and has some 
inkling into the ways of journalism, can easily surmise that the headline 
came from an editor, copy editor or subeditor... The main story makes clear 
the distinction between "Free Software" and "Open Source" ( read the 
bracketed elaboration)...

In fact, I had posted an explanation about the offensive title (my own 
title was: An Indian avatar for the Free Software Foundation) to this list 
(Radi, why are some messages not appearing?), responded to both Radi and 
another person who had commented on the story. I had also, in anticipation 
of RMS reading  the story, mailed him re: the error... The editor of FreeOs 
(to whom I had also pointed out the error) says he needed a non-Indian 
angle (which is why he dropped my headline) since most of the readers of 
FreeOS are abroad...

Anyway, that is just to clarify the situation...

But please understand that I am offended by the implication that I am lax 
in my analysis/understanding...Which I am not...In fact, rarely do I 
venture to write about a subject until I have wrestled it to the ground...

In anger (solidarity lurking in the background -;))

kg

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