Well since everyone is celebrating the anniversary of the fsf-india, why dont I too celebrate the Occassion. But Whats there to celebrate about the formation of a non profit organization working in India that doesnt even know what its purpose is ?
I am refering to the official website of fsf-india. Is the fsf-india trying to hide the identity of what the Free Software Foundation began by Stallman was trying to do. The site mentions about advocating, promoting and propagating the use and development of swatantra software in India but nothing is told about the GNU Operating System and the GNU Project. Is that all what fsf-india is about, to promote and propagate. While the fsf.org has a mission to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users, the fsf.org.in only speaks of, is only a commitment. Then how come fsf-india has descided to help the sarovar in play-fair issue.
There is a poor attempt from the site to promote Free Software and what freedom is all about. The site must either post more pages about GNU System and give more direct links to other places where users could get more information about what fsf-india is all about.
The fsf-india is an emmissary of fsf. Then how come fsf shows itself as an indipendant organization adopting a different logo for its activities. The fsf-india didnt even bother to put up a GNU Head, the official logo of the Free Software Foundation anywhere on its site. It would have been better if the GNU Head was kept alog side the chakra.
Its been three years and it seems that the fsf-india site is managed by a person who is illiterate about what freedom and free software foundation means. Is the fsf-india maintained by some site maintaining private company? Very poor image.