--- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip@lug-delhi.org wrote:
Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
As pointed out by Pai, NASSCOM has a charter to be watchdog for legal use of software, it an
assocation
that _enforceses_.An organisation that works for
Free
Software should have its goal to educate not
enforce.
Sometimes the freedom might need to be enforced. A case in point.
http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/s-asia-it/archive/2001/07/msg00004.html
When cases of GPL violation happens of Free software developed outside the country, the original software developers are quite helpless in doing much about it in India rather than put up notices on their web pages, and a few emails.
That's a good point Sandip, perhaps we don't want to have Agent Smiths to come and enforce laws as NASSCOM does.
We need a watchdog in India to see the the freedom of software is maintained. Since the software is owned by the community, there is right now no formal body to watch for the software.
The Free Software movement from the begining worked like a tribe rather than organistion with specific wings to keep tabs,I might brings to notice that Pai and other have many times brought to our notice many Free Software based companies right here doing mal-practices that you have pointed out and these problems have been sorted out.
point of view might be that we concentrate on people "giving" only, rather than people "taking" and not "giving" back.
I don't get you, what does the above line mean.
--arky ____
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