[Fsf-friends] FSF India goes proprietary?

-- H.S.Rai http://www.grex.org/~hsrai | Registered Linux User # 223684 http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=223684 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hi, Today I received a mail from FSF India list about a new logo for FSF India. Curious to see how this fine logo was produced using free software i checked it up using pdfinfo, here is the result [raj@swathi fsf]$ wget -q http://gnu.org.in/graphics/FSFIndia.pdf [raj@swathi fsf]$ pdfinfo FSFIndia.pdf Title: FSFIndia.pdf Creator: Adobe Illustrator 9.0 Producer: Adobe PDF library 4.800 CreationDate: Sat Apr 26 04:18:34 2003 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.275 x 841.89 pts File size: 56828 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.3 I was shocked and surprised at this blatant use of proprietary software by FSF India. Now cu rious to see if this is an aberration or a practice, I checked other posters from the site. [raj@swathi fsf]$ wget -q http://gnu.org.in/graphics/poster01.jpg [raj@swathi fsf]$ ./jhead -v poster01.jpg Exif header 5530 bytes long <snip> Software = "Adobe Photoshop 7.0?" DateTime = "2003:03:18 15:14:43?" <snip> nuff said, but insults to Stallman and FSF do not end here, The text in poster5, http://gnu.org.in/graphics/poster05.jpg asks all of us to use "Linux" that too in bold red colour. It is also a good exercise to check other pdfs in that page. I do not want to make any comments about the hypocrisy of FSF India, as facts speak for themselves. But one thing is sure, people responsible for this have no clue about the principals of Free Software or GNU project or are least bothered about all that. If there is some one in FSF india who care about the stuff written in the posters please bring out a public apology for doing exactly opposite of what you all have been preaching for long and redo all the graphics using free software. raj PS: The pages referred here are from http://gnu.org.in/graphics/. I know this is a bit off topic here, but the main FSF list do not tolerate any critisism of FSF India.