[smc-discuss] Re: Fwd: [FSUG-Bangalore] Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free Software 2008

[Manu S Madhav]

That's awful... Anyone remotely familiar with software freedom issues these
days will know better than to invite Novell to sponsor such an event.

2008/11/16 Hari Vishnu <harivishnu at gmail.com>

> this is bad news..
>
>  Novell was their main sponsor !?
>
> On Nov 16, 4:42 pm, .Keralafarmer <chandrasekharan.n... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > എന്താ സംഭവം. ഒന്ന് മലയാളത്തില്‍ക്കൂടി പറയൂ. അപ്പോള്‍ മംഗളം വാര്‍ത്ത
> ശരിയാണോ?
> >
> > 16 November 2008 1:29 PM ന്, Praveen A <prav... at gmail.com> എഴുതി:
> >
> >
> >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Rakesh 'arky' Ambati <rakesh_amb... at yahoo.com>
> > > Date: 2008/11/15
> > > Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at
> > > National Conference on Free Software 2008
> > > To: fsf-frie... at mm.gnu.org.in, fsug-bangal... at mm.gnu.org.in
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free
> > > Software 2008
> >
> > >http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2008/11/boycott-novell-protesters-.
> ..
> >
> > > Here is blow by blow account of trouble that brewed up on the second
> > > day of National Conference on Free Software 2008 in Cochin university.
> > > The activists put up posters against the Novell Corp (the main sponsor
> > > of this event) at the Free Software exhibition complex.
> >
> > > The organisers called up Kochi police and man handled the Anivar
> > > Aravind a former student of the Cochin University and a well known
> > > free software activist.
> >
> > > Cheers
> >
> > > --arky
> >
> > > Rakesh 'arky' Ambati
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> >
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-- 
Manu S Madhav
Graduate Student - Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA 21218
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