That's absolutely a remarkable idea.. But for this, it is very necessary that we have a large crowd of FOSS people.. By large crowd, i mean the number to be in excess of 3-4K. such a large crowd has to be channelised so that we are able to send our message to the entire country. There has to be extensive media coverage which can only be assured if we have a large crowd. We would need a larger forum to address these whole lot of people. Any suggestions for all this?
On Nov 8, 5:34 pm, Parin Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Tanay Mathpal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Parin Sharma <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Tanay <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> One of the major factors which help proprietary software vendors keep > >>> a grip on the market is ignorance on the part of the consumers. > >>> Newspapers, one of the key sources of information to the common man, > >>> to aren't playing their part and in their state of ignorance, helping > >>> such organizations. > >>> Recently, on twitter, i pointed out the proprietary bias shown by > >>> Times of India vs Open Mindedness shown by The Hindu "#timesofindia vs > >>> #thehindu Clear proprietary bias shown by #timesofindiahttp://3.ly/bvh > >>> andhttp://3.ly/MQk#opensource #linux". > >>> I also came across many internet related news articles in the local > >>> paper Amar Ujala which used the logo of Internet Explorer. It gives a > >>> wrong notion to the ignorant masses that the Internet and Internet > >>> Explorer are synonymous. So i pointed out this to the Editor, Amar > >>> Ujala through a letter, a copy of which I am pasting below. > >>> My motive is to inspire every reader to fight FOSS ignorance in > >>> whatever best way s/he can and spread the spirit of Open Source. > >>> All the best to all. > > >> Hm I too read this and my thoughts were the same so I commented on that > >> article but they didn't reply with an email. > > > I too commented on that article on the TOI site but they didn't approve it > > neither did they reply.. We all need to do a lot more now for ending this > > ignorance.. > > Hm Well this for all of us Can't we organise a Freedom Walk or March > sometime in Delhi or some other place to tell people about these great > things because everyone deserves freedom and I think this can really help as > many media people will report about such a rally so awareness can be spread > + the ignorance level too can be minimized by telling people about Studies > like the one Done by IIM - Banglore which says FOSS can save 10, 000 Crores > of our country by only replacing 50% of Proprietary Software with FOSS more > onhttp://bit.ly/OooR > > > > > > >>> The Letter > >>> ---------------- > >>> Hello sir, > > >>> I am a regular reader of your newspaper an am highly appreciative of > >>> the content matter and the quality of unbiased journalism of the > >>> daily. > >>> I would like to point your kind attention to a regular feature of the > >>> web related articles published in Amar Ujala. Most of such articles > >>> contain the logo > > >>> of Microsoft's proprietary web browser - Internet Explorer. > > >>> Apart from being a free publicity for the browser and the company, it > >>> gives a wrong notion to the lakhs of readers of the newspaper that the > >>> Internet and Internet Explorer are synonymous. The role of a newspaper > >>> is to create a better, an aware society. Using Microsoft Internet > >>> Explorer's logo in your articles gives the ignorant readers a notion > >>> that Internet Explorer is what the Internet is all about, which is > >>> totally wrong. A newspaper of your reputation should instead promote > >>> Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) > > >>> which gives the users the freedom to use them, without being under the > >>> restrictions of copyright laws. Mozilla Firefox > > >>> is one of the most popular Open Source > > >>> browsers available. Another Open Source browser, Google Chrome is > >>> doing well in the browser market. Opera > > >>> and Apple's Safari > > >>> , though not Open Source, are still options available to the users. > > >>> My only concern is that the newspaper should not mislead the readers. > > >>> Hence I request you to kindly look into the matter and do something in > >>> this regard as early as possible. I would like to get an > >>> acknowledgment of this letter to you. > > >>> I would be highly obliged. > > >>> Thanking you > > >>> Yours sincerely, > > >>> -- > >>> Tanay Mathpal > >>> Final Yr, Computer Engineering > >>> College of Technology > >>> Pantnagar > >>> [email protected] > >>> [email protected] > >>>http://tanamania.wordpress.com/ > >>>http://twitter.com/tanamania/ > > >> Nice you wrote this letter to them hope they do reply and don't repeat > >> this by writing such Bias and misleading articles their > >> newspaper............... > > >> -- > >> Parin Sharma > >> Another FOSS Lover, > >> New Delhi > > > -- > > Tanay Mathpal > > Final Yr, Computer Engineering > > College of Technology > > Pantnagar > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > >http://tanamania.wordpress.com/ > >http://twitter.com/tanamania/ > > -- > Parin Sharma > Another FOSS Lover, > New Delhi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? 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