[FSUG-Bangalore] Fwd: History of Free Software movement in India

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Dear Anivar,

I am not too sure about the definition 'movement' but when I was
studying--1986-88--there was already 'opensystems' (which included not just
software but hardware and firmware too). Though the dominance of M$ was not
as pronounced, opinion had already turned against it and other proprietary
systems.

So I think it will be safe to assume the start of the 'movement' at least
sometime in the early 1980s, rather than a decade later. It was amorphous,
but it did exist. For a while it was part of the 'pirates' who wanted to
subvert the stranglehold of the proprietary makers. All this are important
parts of the FSM. Ironically, M$ was a strong advocate of the opensystems
approach in the initial stages, untill WINTEL came along.

I moved away from the technical part about 15 years ago, so I don't know the
details in between, but I am sure it was a vibrant one (just like its
earlier forms). There will be others who can fill in the gap.

Great effort!

best wishes,

Edwin



2008/11/30 Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com>

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:40 PM
> Subject: History of Free Software movement in India
> To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in>
>
>
> Dear Friends
>
> In kochi conference I did a presentation on History of Free Software
> movement in India. (I presented my session after the boycott novell
> campaign and manhandling )
> The slide of the presentation is available at
> http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/wp-content/uploads/storydom.pdf
> (Thanks Hiran for the Theme & design)
>
> I am planning to make this as an article. Please go through it and
> point if i missed any groups
> So please send your feedback
> Also it will help the people in this list to get the name of various
> groups contributed to the Free Software movement
>
> Anivar Aravind
>
> --
> Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free
> Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs.
> Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds.
>
>
>
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> Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free
> Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs.
> Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds.
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