It boosts our movement... its a moral support for all FOSSians. But just appreciating an email will not make this thing true for Nepal. We all are among very 2% IT literates of Nepal.
If not we act now, we can never coz its ICT and growing from 2% to 70+% doesnt take much time. Lets start new discussion thread to pressurize Nepal. let be revolutionary here in our cause. On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Suvash Thapaliya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:01 PM, suraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Looking forward to see this in Nepal. >> > Well, someone must be arrested first then :) > hehe, anyways this certainly is good news. > > >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> >>> One post I enjoyed reading very much in many days: >>> >>> http://reddevil62-techhead.blogspot.com/2008/10/russias-open-source-revolution.html >>> I hope you will too. Enjoy ! >>> >>> Excerpts: >>> >>> "What happens when someone says, "no, sorry, we do not want to use >>> your software any more" and what if that someone is a whole nation, >>> and that whole nation happens to be a world superpower with the >>> resources and will to forge its own, alternative route to >>> technological competitiveness? >>> ..... >>> the headmaster of a village school in Sepych, in the Perm region of >>> Russia, was arrested for running unlicensed copies of Microsoft >>> software on his school's computers. It has been reported that no less >>> than Vladimir Putin himself intervened to get the charges thrown out; >>> had he not, Posonov was facing up to five years in jail...... >>> .... >>> Rather than pay massive licensing costs to legitimise the country's >>> Microsoft software, then deputy prime minister (now President) Dmitry >>> Medvedev decided on an altogether more radical route - to use Open >>> Source, Linux-based software in all Russia's schools." >>> >>> Cheers ! >>> Bibek >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> With Regards, >> Suraj Sapkota >> सुरज सापकोटा >> >> >> > > > > -- OLPG --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
