yes rebel voices should be never supressed...in fact they have shown the way in history..
agreed this was within the family...and hence somebody took the liberty to protest .. rather than in a private conference elsewhere
however cheap publicity should be looked down .. rebels have historically been very responsible people......that is the part which is in question right now...rebels try resolution before confrontation ......
and sure no body can get away - all of us our saying 'BOYCOTT NOVELL" - however we need to work with some of them like the IEEE , the gentleman who came with Arun the other day, who has done a lot for free software ( sorry sir once again ) - and have a democratic way of protesting too
i suggest we have a protest/grafitti stall from now on in our programmes.......where all of us can criticise fsf-india, any political party which is supporting free software and so on - but when this happens without responsibility - then we have to have these unfortunate posts - which makes me very sad - especially when folks are putting their heart and sould into this work
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Here, a wrong has been committed by (a) humiliating an individual who protests against a non-free incursion inside a Free Software conference and disseminates non-free ideology and (b) protecting the non-free intruder to display their non-free trickery without objections. Novell has succeeded in driving the wedge, inflicting a kind of perfect damage to a contributors' community and getting away scot-free.
CK Raju