Hi rm,
Please don't get carried away..
There is lot of mention of "American Companies"..it sounds like
American Military or something..
Redhat,IBM,HP,Dell,Sun,Google are American Companies tooo..
FSF is American too :-) though a 501(c)(3) organisation.
Anyway its good that piracy raids on illegal software happen and
people switch to free software..coz most windoze system becomes
security burden when connected to net by becoming proxy for botnet
attacks,spammers and nodes which unleashes DoS..
Again ..all commercial public companies at some point of time..break
free from its inherited ethics("Don't be Evil" slogans not
withstanding..) and turn to
maximising profit "by any and all means necessary.."
So my point is..that the focus should be "unethical practices" like
vendor-lockins,DRMs,software patents,closed and non-free
software,FUD,EEE(embrace,extend,exterminate), de-commoditisation of
network protocols,data formats etc.
Don't think for a moment that Indian Companies are any
better..InfoSyS, Wipro and all
are at forefronts denigrating free software(remember their opinions in
meetings about OOXML)..Dont know why Narayan Murthy and all are given
all sort of awards..becoz they made money??? for themselves..!! (ok
ok..they do charity too.big deal...poor us..great them.)
I don't know whether Kerala LDF Govt implements free software out of
understanding of the concept or just plain
anti-Americanism..(thankfully RMS frequently checks-up on them..so
there is hope..)
"Socialism(Communism) is a philosophy of failure, the creed of
ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal
sharing of misery" - Winston Churchill
just my thoughts..
-Vikhr Akula
Quoting raneez mohamed <raneez at gmail.com>:
> Hi Everbody,
>
> This are the Excerpts from Madhyamam daily dated 29th april 2008,reported by
> E.Basheer about the need for Free Software and
> two IT specialists in goverment Authority commenting on Software policy.
>
> To Avoid Software piracy and license issues from American Companies,The best
> Strategy is to switch over to Free Software .
> This was the suggestion Forwarded by Joseph C. Mathew who is the IT Advisor
> of Kerala to the news report in
> Madhyamam Daily about "Indian Software Companies must be Monitered -American
> policy".After Allowing Software piracy
> and again bargaining for loss on piracy in the name raid and monitering
> software companies in india for them there is an hidden Agenda.
> Software piracy can be blocked with programs not to copycat it.In kerala
> SPACE and IT mission are promoting Free software
> in goverment level.He hopes the future is safe in hands of Free Software.
>
> Anwer Sadath,Executive Director of IT at school commented that in state there
> should be long time plan in software policy
> which must implemented by Goverment and IT industries in kerala that must be
> on the platform of Free Software So that we can avoid
> Threats from American Companies.For this we have to develop Software based
> on free software and opensource,where it has dual
> advantage ,first a software license in our own hands and secondly price is
> low compared to american companies.
>
> At last the report ends by microsofts deminishing sales in OS.which is due
> to software piracy.To avoid this the monitering will be
> tighten in india and other south asian countries.So its High time for Free
> Software which is always an good option to fight this threat.
>
>
>
> Thank you
> raneez
>
