On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:11 PM, krishnakant Mane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I went through the editorial. > one more point which struck me was that it creates an impression that > this is a "proxy for product war " > which means all those who supported odf also had some selfish marketing > gains. > here we should note that people like Dr. Nagarjun have helped this > cause due to no "marketing of product " aim. > secondly the tone of the editorial also talks about the licensing cost > issue and has not really emphasised on the "freedom aspect " which > implies freedom to encript and decript the data by any one who wishes > to do so. > it uses words like "negociations for license costs ", correct me if I > am remembering wrong but although my quoting might not be word to word > correct, the tone of the article is towards saying that odf is for > those who care about the cost of licensing and it talks nothing much > about freedom. > Yes, I forgot to mention that. One more reason to believe they are reading out of Microsoft's PR briefs. Can we work upon drafting a letter to the editor as the GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai? -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
