<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:50 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sasi.fsf@gmail.com" target="_blank">sasi.fsf@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You say that if an organisation accepts money from another, then the one<br>
that accepts money should not criticise the donor. This is absolute<br>
nonsense. </blockquote><div> ... and ...<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">FSF India will not accept money with conditions attached. </blockquote>
<div> ... and ...<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Only those who are willing to support under this condition<br>
needs to. We don't ask money from people who do not accept our stand. If<br>
someone willingly gives money, or support, we will accept it. </blockquote><div><br>Amazingly, these are from the same paragraph. When FSFI accepts
money there are not strings attached, but when some one wants to donate
they need to accept a stand. Thats a nice deal.<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;">We objected to IKM using proprietary software, and we have also written<br>
letters about various other governments opting for proprietary software.</blockquote><div><br>No one ever knew when these happened. Lets hope the letters were written 'to' the governments and not 'about' the governments. How many responded and what corrective actions were taken? Why is everything made known only when asked like this? Is it because its a company with 'limited liabilities'?<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;">The protest against IKM was stronger because there is a stronger FS<br>
movement in Kerala compared to other places. </blockquote><div><br>There are strong FS movement in other places also. Why is that we are not putting efforts to make other states to turn to Free Software? Why only on those which themselves have already announced their support to Free Software?<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;">
We have explained the accusation of being "undemocratic" in another<br>
thread, and I don't propose to repeat it here.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>That was hardly an explanation. When one doesn't believe in democracy in functioning itself, how can one even think of a 'democratic protest' without properly exercising their freedom of speech. Unfortunately, when democracy and freedom of speech is typecast only to 'protests', all kinds of cats are bound to jump out.<br>
</div><div> </div></div>-- Sarath M S<br>