|| On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:22:08 +0000 || Tarun Gaur gaur_tarun@hotmail.com wrote:
gaur_tarun> Hi Friends, gaur_tarun> I understand and respect your confidence and am myself a staunch gaur_tarun> follower of FSF and open source. Infact the company where i am working
Tarun,
FSF is not connected with Open SOurce movement. Again fsf.org/philosophy is your friend.
gaur_tarun> If you were at Microsoft or even IBM and giving statements like "I gaur_tarun> care a Damn on what Mr. Ram Reddy" thinks .... you know the result.
Didn't get you.
gaur_tarun> No! You can be as flexible as you want and still be Flexible and gaur_tarun> diverse. And I am not decrying Linux, i know we are reaching there gaur_tarun> slowly but surely and we all know Microsoft is struggling to retain 2 gaur_tarun> million Windows NT base.
gaur_tarun> So, when the competetion picks up it is the BUYERS market and you have gaur_tarun> to be very agile to pick up a market share. And we have to behave very gaur_tarun> responsibly and look at the world from customer's perspective. We have gaur_tarun> a big resposibility here. Remember we are not a market leaders but gaur_tarun> intend to be. You like it or dislike it Microsoft is still there on gaur_tarun> 94% of wold's desktops. You know why .. because they dont ignore the gaur_tarun> suggestions of guys like Ram Reddy.
gaur_tarun> Please do not look at this as a Developer, try looking at it as a gaur_tarun> business man or an end user.
Oh.. we just don't care. Atleast I just don't care. We don't need a Ram Mohan Reddy or an Anand Parthasarathy to praise Free Software movement to "succeed" (if success means "increase the user base or whatever).
Free Software is not a business movement, it is a political and social movement. If you care for businesses and their "success", you better find your way out to opensource.org. They are friends of yours and share your thinking. For them just opening the source is enough, they don't care whether one can study, copy, modify and redistribute software. So.. good for parasites and businesses.
gaur_tarun> We have have done a lot to reach here, lets not assume that we are the
Exactly. It is 20+ years of effort. Let us not sabotage it all. We care for freedom not for businesses and user base.
gaur_tarun> Please do not take this note as personal
Echoing the same from here too..
gaur_tarun> Lets continue to improve, to end the note .. I am going to Mr. Ram gaur_tarun> Reddy's place this weekend and be sure we will win one more guy for gaur_tarun> FSF !!
Thanks. But please talk about Freedom and (hence) the benefits it brings to masses like better quality, reliability, security, not to mention the eye-candiness of GNOME and KDE. Freedom and free information is what's all about the FSF philosophy.
cheers