Journalists are a set of people who should be taught the fundamentals of free software. There is always a notion that FREE is bad. Manorama being a leading daily shall not enter into onslaught on Liberation Movement of software also. Instead it should pay attention on such restrictive conditions put forward by Government of India when a grant is given.
On 15 June 2010 22:23, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 June 2010 19:40:06 A. Mani wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Aveek Sen <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM > > Subject: Fwd: [fsug-tvm] Oru Mani Vartha @ Manorama News 'shouts' > > against free software > > To: iitdlug <[email protected]>, nitalug > > <[email protected]>, nitdgplug <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > Just some minutes before Manorama News aired a report on Central > > government funds for IT enabling Electricity boards. It stated > > Kerala is going to loss the fund support from central government, > > since KSEB is strict on using FOSS tools. The news reported free > > software is inefficient, functions like online bill payment cannot > > be done using FOSS tools. The news was reported by Rajeev Devraj > > for Manorama News from TVM. > > whom did the channel attribute the statement to.? > > > -- > Rgds > JTD > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in >
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