On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Amarendra Godbole < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Nikhil Karkare <[email protected]> wrote: > > No. I did not buy the product. I already have the biggest Linux > deployment > > amongst schools, with GCompris installed. I don't think talking will help > > much, but worth a try. > > Should I make a list of companies who do this? Maybe make a blacklist > which > > is publicly available? > [...] > lets not get into the blacklist etc mode its confrontational , i would take a much milder approcah as in lets have all the people with these kind of products which they have bought or someone in there circle has bought , we can educate the companies rather than confront, i think this approcah should work most of the time . yes we can start listing companies name and products which you think are not in complicance. > Your approach suggests you to be under 30, with a lot of real-world > inexperience. If you have a large amount of money in your account, and > are capable of facing legal music, you can make a public list, and > shout from the rooftop about how evil these companies are. All those > people who are encouraging you on the list will run away at the drop > of a hat, if it comes to the court of law. > lets not get personal and get to the op's point here , how can you predict about others? > IMHO, best option to use and adopt Linux, is appreciate the goodies it > provides, and use them while keeping the legalities to the > foss-legal-eagles. And you asking about freedom? Well, you have to > look at the BSD license then. > > My personal, skewed, but real-world opinion. > i agree to your not so skewed opinion , if we are not brigining to legals notice then who can ? yes we may have some false positives but in the process we will set a precident for others to follow as to how to approach these kind of issues . imho i think it is an important enough as part of community somebody has to raise the voice to begin the process . -Satya _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
