<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">James Mathew writes "This is an interesting story from Kerala, India,<br>
where the ruling Communist Party organized a national conference in<br>
its efforts to hijack the Free Software Movement, which has enviable<br>
roots in the state. They got Novell to sponsor it. On the second day<br>
of the conference, a few free software activists who displayed posters<br>
against Novell were manhandled by the organizers and police — typical<br>
of what is expected from them. Most of the snaps taken during the<br>
scuffle were forcefully deleted by the organizers, after seizing the<br>
protesters' mobile phones. Still they couldn't delete all. Here is<br>
another low-by-blow account."<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>It seems that "hijacking" is such a catchy phrase nowadays.<br><ul><li>Hijacking means to take over by force.Hijacking may refer to: In
property:* Aircraft hijacking or 'skyjacking'* Carjacking* Credit card
hijacking <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=10&oi=define&ei=whkhSb7cIYau6wOW4vCgCA&sig2=4c_LgOJSVMymunOQpjcd9g&q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijack&usg=AFQjCNFlW5Xts1_MrmahbfEfEGfMRle2_w" target="_blank"><font color="#008000">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijack</font></a></li>
</ul>HOW the hell can anyone hijack a peoples' movement?<br>I saw that James Mathew used his <a href="http://gnu.org.in" target="_blank">gnu.org.in</a> id to post this slashdot message.<br>Why is FSF-India promoting this "hijack" theory everywhere?<br>
I remember seeing the important people of FSF-India sharing the dais with the Left, holding important positions in the Left Govt. in Kerala, using the Left whenever some help is needed and then this dual standards...<br>
FSF-India cannot even get an appointment with a Minister without the help of the Left. <br>
It was the Left backed school teachers' assn which promoted free software in Kerala.<br>It was because of the Left that patents in software were not adopted in Parliament...<br>What does FSF-India have to say for itself?<br>