<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>another request: Personal attacks are a strict no-no. I hope they were written in the heat of the moment, and will be withdrawn. We should be able to differ without imputing motives or questioning personal integrity.<br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I will withdraw the comments if you please explain to me what is the wrong with the thing i have said? I cannot deceive myself by withdrawing what i have said. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>Most egroups function quite well on just the rule of courtesy:<br>
RESPECT ALL MEMBERS.<br>
It is always okay to disagree. It is never okay to disagree rudely.<br>
You have a right to feel anyway you feel. How you act on those feelings is what is important.<br>
Treat all members with civility and respect.</div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>Sometimes it becomes necessary to disrespect one or two to respect the greater cause, The Freedom......even though i have not disrespected any one in my previous mail. I have raised some questions and if someone is involved its not my fault. And i believe these are to be discussed here because someone foolishness should not hinder our march towards Freedom. Every one knows how difficult it is to fight these proprietary giants. Our only strength is the strength of our ideology. i dont want to see the free software group to be limited just as a technical group (20 common persons in 50 mailing list, think what is the reach of such a group) It should become a movement, a mass movement where every one will love free softwares. the conference in kochi was successful to great extent in that manner. It is clear that some persons wanted to sabotage it. Some were writing in news papers its cpim hijack. I will ask whose interest are they protecting? In the struggle which we all have to fight together.....some are , may be due to their prejudice, kicking on ourself. What else do the incidents in kochi show to us. Nagarjuna was there on the stage..why didnot he go paste poster?<br>
<br><b>Our </b><b>freedom shall not violate the freedom of others.
</b><i><br><br></i>see how the protest was against the Freedom concept<br><br><a href="http://aswinatgec.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/boycott-novell-boycotted-from-free-software-conference/#comments">http://aswinatgec.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/boycott-novell-boycotted-from-free-software-conference/#comments</a><br>
<br><i>His protest through the poster campaign is well within his rights in
this democratic society so long as it is in public place. It was
tolerable any where in the campus walls, except on the posters put up
by others. In any case not on the board of novell placed in the rented
exhibition stall inside the hall. If Anivar is having any regard for
the freedom he cherishes and preaches with respect to software, he
shouldnot have pasted his posters on the novell's board inside the
exhibition hall. On the complaint from the novell representative,
Anivar was asked not to do this. But he threatened the organisers that
he will paste 10 posters for every poster removed. On such expression
of arrogance and attack on the freedom of the novell to have its board
placed in its paid stall, organisers of the exhibition ordered Anivar
to be sent out of the novell's stall. This is what has happened. Anivar
could have even taken a stall on rental and exhibited his ideas. Anivar
freedom shall not violate the freedom of others.
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