[ilug-tvm] Re: some news from mangalam

[Shino Jacob]

*"It is very clear from the writings the news in the papers are drafted by
some among ourself. Why are they doing these activities*"

why? to know the truth. When a write up comes up in a newspaper what do
people do? they wanted to know the truth, nothing but the truth. Did I ever
say  a party is taking control of FSF? I dont have any prejudice, I have lot
of commonsense to understand things.

.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:53 PM, haynes davis <haynesdavis at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.mail-archive.com/fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in/msg00704.html
>
> I am writing this mail since my earlier mail is being interpreted to
>
> mean that the CPI(M) is trying to sabotage the Free Software Movement in
> the country. That was not at all what I meant. Since I wrote it in a
> hurry as I am on the verge of leaving on a rather longish journey. I
> don't think a large party like the CPM would try to capture a small
>
> organisation like FSF India. But the convention has several known CPM
> leaders (such as Dr. Debesh Das) and CPM supporters (such as Sri N.
> Ram). So it would appear that the people who are doing this have a CPM
> background. Why they would want to create such a problem, god only
>
> knows. I am sure the top brass in the party would never knowingly permit
> such activities. I am sorry if I sounded otherwise.
>
> Best
> --
> V. Sasi Kumar
> Free Software Foundation of India
>
> ###################################################################################
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/11/17/0120203
>
> HI, Myself one of the protestors of boycottnovell protest happened in
> kerala. I would like to summarize some points here.
>
> The event was not organized by the Communist Party. Communist Party is
> promotting Free Software on several occasions and they have a good stand on
> Free Software. The event organizers are as seen here at the event site
> http://nfm2008.atps.in./ [nfm2008.atps.in] Some of the organizers were not
> having enough exposure to the Free Software world. That actually led to the
> situation of Novell being the platinum sponsor of the event. The whole
> problem is because of the igorance of the organizers on the subject. The
> organizers mishandled the subject without realizing the issue, as they have
> little knowledge about the issue raised by us.
>
> Our concern was about Novell, and we wanted the general public to know the
> truth. For that we raised the posters telling them the reasons of boycott
> Novell. We didnot boycott the event. We did participate the event and tried
> to correct the organizers and tried to pass the correct information to the
> public. The organizers didnt realize this and they took their position with
> Novell due to their ignorance. and this mishandling of this issue caused the
> problems.
>
> Anyway the organizers <http://nfm2008.atps.in/> [nfm2008.atps.in] (CP(I)M
> is not among the organizers ) owe an apology to free software community
> regarding this.
> I think the way slashdot presented the issue is misleading. This is not an
> issue between Communist party and Free Software people.
> On behalf of the protestors
> Shyam K
> ##########################################################
>
>
> It is very clear from the writings the news in the papers are drafted by
> some among ourself. Why are they doing these activities. These people are
> really working against free software movement. do fsf India holds this view
> of cpim hijack or why dont fsf make things clear? Conference in Kochi was
> really a good attempt to spread the idea of free software. Why some persons
> want to sabotage that attempt, and that too in the name of FSF. I feel the
> age of McCarthism is not still over for some. I dont see these type of
> opposition among those whose are adamant to fight cpim away from free
> software community in the threads which discussed BJP's foray into free
> software realm. So it is clear that these anti-cpim fears are clearly from
> their personal convictions and prejudice. And its cpim which has supported
> free software movement the most. If there is something wrong in cpim's stand
> on any issues or freedom software movement why cant we correct them instead
> of staring them away.
>
>
>
>
> >
>


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