On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) sensunda@cisco.com wrote:
hi Arun ,
thanks for that personal note.
Though I expressed solidarity immediately i knew of this. I need a clarification. 'Novell' signs were put up in the venue earlier. Dr Nagarjuna was on the dias.
Did Anivar inform you folks earlier itself..which could have sorted out things peacefully or only things were informed after confrontation.
I think anivar have the capacity to do campaigns in his personal capacity and he already shown that in a lot of other Civil society campaigns like Free Binayaksen campaign http://binayaksen.net , Kerala Tourism Watch http://keralatourismwatch.org etc. Does anivar Representing FSF India in Conference? The Conf website says he is represesenting SMC in Programme Commitee. So I am Quoting from SMC's statement
<quote> Members from SMC were part of the Programme Committee and the Souvenir Committee. There were no indication that Novell was the platinum sponsor of this Free Software Event. The organisers never communicated about the sponsorship and thus betrayed the whole Free Software community as Novell did. This is evident from the incidents that occurred after the peaceful campaign to boycott Novell by the SMC members & other Free Software Supporters present at the meeting.
SMC members including Anivar Aravind, Shyam, Hiran, Suresh, Jaisen and many others were busy in the first day with Localisation track (full time) and sessions. After knowing Novell's role SMC members planned a peaceful awareness campaign on second day urging end users to boycott Novell and posted a Charge sheet against Novell. However, the organisers, primarily the CUSAT bureaucrats & Members of Students Union, (who does not have much exposure in Free Software) were harsh with the protesters after a verbal complaint from one of the Novell official present at the stall.
quoted http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/StatementOnNCFS2008Kochi
However I did see in the venue and in slashdot that very senior free software foudation folks act without restraint and like any regular flamer which is unfortunate.
You have all rights to keep your view. But others have all freedom to act different than your expectation
my report and take on the incident in kochi conference and the frequent flames seen in the recent days.
http://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/kochi+conference
in solidarity S
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