Hi friends,
- - - - S A V E F R E E S O F T W A R E - - - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Kerala has recently been emerging as free software destination and obvious choice for cheaper solution providers in the context of financial crisis resulting in cautious investments on new IT (ad)ventures. IT students should also view this as an opportunity and they should ardently support the free software movement. Removal of Joseph C Mathew(IT Advisor to Govt. of Kerala) and Arun M(Specifal Officer ICFOSS) is obviously linked to Proprietory Software Vendor's efforts to regain ground in Kerala. The actions are being taken in the pretext of discipline and factional feuds of CPI(M). This is a mere smoke screen..! The real culprit behind this is different. The obvious attempt is to derail the efforts in pushing the Free Software agenda. Friends, beware and act on all platforms you can to secure the spirit of freedom. Elements in CPI(M) are trying to hijack it's own party policy of supporting Free Software and Land reforms. We saw a similar hijack in Munnar -removal of Suresh Kumar IAS, Adv. D Anil Kumar Govt. Pleader and transfer of Raju Narayana Swamy IAS. ITPolicy 2007, GNU/Linux in i...@school, CATFOSS, ICFOSS etc are going to be the next victims. * * * PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS * * * http://dailypioneer.com/147238/Anil-Kumar-Joseph-tender-resignations.html http://www.itmission.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=141:international-center-for-free-and-open-source-software&catid=35:e-governace&Itemid=67 http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/02/stories/2008080253780400.htm ----------------------------------------------- T h e s e q u e n c e of e v e n t s * Microsoft Officials approached the senior officers incharge of IT * Joseph C Mathew(IT Advisor to Govt. of Kerala) vehemently opposed undue favours in the name of IT for realestate lobbies(HMT scandal) * Joseph C Mathew opposed an effort of CPI(M) official bandwagon to make the FOSS movement it's subsidiary. * An interesting order that came up recently "You can use Microsoft Windows also in schools" - like an omen from the skies. * ITPolicy 2007, Use of GNU/Linux in i...@school, CATFOSS etc ICFOSS are going to be the next victims ----------------------------------------------- by Free Software enthusists ----------------------------------------------- W h a t is f r e e s o f t w a r e ? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html __._,_.___ -- Debian GNU/Linux .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ .''`. : :' : `. `'` `- _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list [email protected] http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org
