Also calls for "Strong alience with the Terrorist groups"Please avoid politics.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Nishan Naseer <[email protected]>wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: vinay ವಿನಯ್ <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/3/18 > Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] CPI(M) manifesto calls for promotion of Free > and Open Source Software (FOSS) > To: [email protected], [email protected] > > > Dear All, > > The political support for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) continues > to increase. > > The CPI(M) manifesto released on the 16th of March calls for the > promotion of FOSS. The manifesto can be accessed at > http://www.cpim.org/manifesto.pdf > > Following are some of the highlights of the policy - > - Promoting FOSS and other such new technologies, which are free from > monopoly ownership through copyrights or patents; > - Revamping the functioning of the Patent offices to ensure strict > adherence to the Indian Patent Act; Stop training and orientation of > Indian Patent office personnel by the US and European Patent offices > > These above measures are critical to support the public education > system, local economy and the knowledge commons and counter neo-liberal > pressures that aim to privatize the public information/knowledge domain. > > The CPI(M) has been a traditional supporter of free software, the > comprehensive IT programs in Kerala, including in the public school > system (http://itschool.gov.in/otherprograms.php#6) is based on FOSS. > With key parties from both the left and the right end of the political > spectrum endorsing FOSS, the Congress is left as the only major > national party which is yet to formally take a position on FOSS. One > hopes that the Congress too will soon extend its support for free > software when it releases its own manifesto next week, and explicitly > acknowledge the significant political, socio-cultural and economic > advantages of FOSS over proprietary software platforms (see > http://public-software.in/FOSS-manifesto for a call from the Network of > the FOSS Community in India to the political parties, to recognise the > advantages of FOSS in their election manifestos). > > Thanks, > Vinay. > _______________________________________________ > Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss > > > > > -- My Site http://everlovingyouth.googlepages.com My Technical Write http://acutedeveloper.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
