This is going to happen more in the days to come.
Companies of the likes of M$ or adobe or you name it, will do more such
currupt media propaganda.
The more free software is excepted in the mainstreem seriously, the
lower will be the level of of opposition quality.
These proprietory companies will involve in the lowest grade possible
methods to get media to report what they want.
Today they are paying media to do wrong propaganda, tomorrow I will not
be surprised if these companies will pay gangsters to man handle people
who get success in promoting FOSS.
Education of the media is one way but won't be an effective solution.
While individual reporters might agree with our concernes, but the
organisation in its entirity might not like to help us. We Can't offer
them family trips to US or switzerland, we can't gift them BMWs or any
big educational favour to their children.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 10:15 AM, Jibu Jacob wrote:
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] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 19:40:06 A. Mani wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Aveek Sen <[email protected] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[email protected]>>, nitalug
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>,
nitdgplug <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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