Dear Jose, I'm now into corporate law, but as an attorney, handled a number of briefs in the field of 'intellectual property'. Being economical with the truth comes easily to many, including our own Goans - Rene is not immune. If you Google 'World Goa Day founder' only Rene's name appears, in a number of self-promotional postings, including the msg. section of his own goaday.com and prominent Goan websites like the 'Goan Voice'. You can google last year's GV Canada, for a clear Goa Day msg from Rene himself, headlined as Founder.
There is no cause for being disingenuous. IP - intellectual property - is an individual's own creation, idea, invention. Stealing this is outright theft; of his/her idea & good name. We are all more than delighted to honour Rene as the Promoter of Goa Day. Let's take it from there. There are a huge number of unanswered questions as to the use and abuse of WGD. The groundswell continues to rise by the hour - today itself you can read Helga R. Gomes and Roland Francis - two of GN's more accomplished writers. I needed to inject levity, instead of acrimony, into the WGD controversy, hence the Sardar ref! As to the Scout motto, that was just a friendly nudge to "Be Prepared". We all skim and dance on the surface, parrying thrusts in our little cyber-world skirmishes. But often, weapons of mass destruction lie just beneath. WGD must never die. It is up to us to breathe life & rationale & relevance into it. We had a small Goanetters WGD lunch in Toronto yester- day. At the end we raised a modest sum for Konkani. Now if every WGD function tried the same everywhere, every year, wouldn't that be a real WGD, a 'Wonderful Goa Day'? http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ With every good wish, FR. ....... >Dear Francis, >Once again, I thank you for the civility in your communications to me. >Having said that, I will let your characterization (on this forum) of >Sardars, remain entirely yours....I'd like to suggest that IF you possess >any evidence that the good Rene Baretto has ever claimed that He is the >originator of the World Goa Day idea, please post it here. time......... >Perhaps, someday you will tell us what relevance the Scout motto has with >my posting wrt World Goa Day. >with the best of wishes >jose _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
