Dear Kannan,
Your mail is full of vague insinuations and accusations. If you are expecting a response from those whom you are accusing, it would be good to make your statements clear and precise. If your intention is only mud slinging, you can carry on at the risk of becoming a laughing stock. And I find it strange that you advocate giving the work of localisation to a commercial company. You don't want such work to be done by the community? And you are depreciating the huge effort being put in by a number of our young people. Please remember that you are actually insulting them by your words. It would be good if you studied what people are doing before throwing wild accusations against them.
You are also accusing the FSF Board members of "sneaking in" and ganging up. These are serious allegations and you may have to substantiate them. Please give your evidence for these allegations.
It is strange that you are asking for proof for involvement in Free Software projects from members of the Director board and Working Group. You seem to think that the objective of FSF India is to contribute to Free Software projects. Please do your homework properly before taking up arms against people who are doing what they can for the good of FS in India.
Sasi
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:39 -0800, A Kannan. (CUSAT) wrote:
You don't know the real mafia that runs fee software fromTrivandrum. They want to eat up all the money from government coffers. They will do the same project any number of times. Look at space, apts or any free software initiative that we have in kerala. They are for sucking government money. Take the case of Malayalam localization. These guys did this When fund got exhausted they shifted to Space. They will come out with another initiative when the government changes.
If the government had entrusted localization to a commercial software company , after inviting tenders and with a condition that the code developed is GPL , the task might have been over in a very short time. The localisation will go on for ever and malayalam will eventually die.
The Cochin event was well engineered so that the Mafia get a martyr image. They got maximum publicity. Several old listers will remember how some of the board members sneaked into the board overnight.
All FSF board members from Kerala form a gang ( I dont know about others) . Have a look at this page. http://www.gnu.org.in/about-fsf-india/whos-who And then examine the real contribution of kerala members on technology front. It will be a big zero. FSF India should publish detials of its board memebers ,working group members and clearly state what free software project each one is associated with. ( I can even see people with just email ids alone like kg(at)tug.org.in )
I think there are several listers around who recognises thegang. Now that they are caught red handed , they are trying to be diplomatic and offering soaps to the original blogger to douse the fire. (See lug TVM mail list) It seems Sunil will get kick behind his back very soon.
Kannan PS Just read the list of people protested as posted by Arun. The very people who ran the Trivandrum show. They are seen at film festival cultural events Computer Society of India ,IEEE, ABCD XYZ etc. You start a new forum they will hijack it in due course.