2008/11/18 haynes davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "YOUR FREEDOM ENDS FROM WHERE MY NOSE BEGINS" > > The Boycott-Novell protest that was staged during the National Conference at > Kochi was really unfortunate. Not because of the ideology of Boycott-Novell, > but the the intentions of some of the protesters. > Was it good to paste posters in other stalls and on someone else's posters? > Was not it against the principles of freedom? Was it good enough to > challenge the organizers that 10 posters will be pasted for each one > removed? So the intentions seemed to be to interrupt the function rather > than raising a cause. And the saddest part is that the protester himself was > one of the organizer. The organizers gave us the opportunity to raise our > concerns through open forum or posters, but with out infringing on others > freedom,without disrupting the function. > Why some among us is writing articles in news papers opposing such > initiatives live Kochi Conference? Do you think it was journalist who dug up > the issue of cpim hijack of FSF. Some among us are creating confusion > regarding the GRAND HIJACK THEORY. Why does not the FSF people stop the > double speak. Please make the things straight and clean. Cpim has supported > free software the most. Does not we need its support. Or why should we
If CPI(M) supports Free Software, then why did the members of this party attended a MS marketing event? IKM and related stories are history. Here is the latest one: http://k-mug.org/content/LaunchReport.aspx > accept its support and then accuse it of hijacking. if its true then please > come forward with press release on FSF letter pad accusing cpim so that we > can end the controversies. > Why FSF still does not condemn the undemocratic, immoral way of protest that > took place. Are these happening with the knowledge of FSF persons who were > present in the venue. Are they supporting these. > > FSF should distance itself from undemocratic,illegal, immoral and > unjustifiable acts of protest. > > Regards, > Haynes. > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > [email protected] > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > > We all know that CPI(M) has publicly endorsed Free Software(http://www.cxotoday.com/India/Interview/We_advocate_usage_of_free_software_at_all_levels/551-81897-906.html), but unfortunately, very few comrades follow it. -- Manilal K M : മണിലാല് കെ എം. http://libregeek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [email protected] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
