On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Balaji Damodaran <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, pavithran <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6 June 2010 16:23, narendra sisodiya <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> The flv version is just an advertisement for 'Rajniti' movie. Since, I > >>> watched that one first, I really started wondering how it is related to > >>> Linux. But I then figured that there must be something wrong, and > watched > > > > Why are many of us bothering to even click on a Flash video( > > propreitary) when OGG(freedom ) video is available! > > > > Chrome and firefox play OGG by default and I can safely assume that > > most of us are using latest versions of them ! > > > > Since this has turned into an OT (yet again), I'd like to specify an > incident. > RMS came to our company in Bangalore and he gave a speech on freedom > and free software. > > He asked the audience to stop using cellphones, because they're > proprietary and they can detect where you are. He said that he doesn't > have a cellphone, but he suggested to use a cellphone that is open > sourced. A person kept a bottle of Kinley water next to him, he said > that he doesn't use Coca-Cola products because he is part of the > wordwide boycott of that company. He said that sometimes he doesn't > drink a drop of water while travelling in flight because the flight > served only coca-cola products. > > So, I hope true believers of freedom don't drinking coca-cola > products, don't use iphone, blackberry, (symbian is opensourced, > yay!), Imagine RMS as a great "Sadhu/Mahatma/Avtar". If you try to follow him, that does not means you "have to" become like him. If you like Ramdev Baba, you need to be become like him Or you need not to perform all his yoga in single day. He is just defining the ultimate digital freedom and various issue.. it is upto you, how much you can walk/take > windows, mac osx, adobe products, mp3 songs, dvd movies, divx > movies, don't play flash games, video games based on windows, nvidia, > don't use microsoft docs, hell they shouldn't be even using google > docs. Reject .Net projects at work, Infact, we should have the guts to > quit the company where we work because they use only windows. <Noise> Actually > you should throw your desktop/laptop (while you are at it, make sure > you break & burn it) because the bios used is proprietary. > > </Noise> > lets all practice what we preach. > > Apologies for the troll, had this stuck in my neck for so long. > > > Regards, > > Pavithran > > > > -- > > pavithran sakamuri > > http://look-pavi.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > > ILUGC Mailing List: > > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
