Most of the reporters are clueless about computers, and come to interview Sarath just because it makes a "good" news item. I dont think they have any interest presenting the issue well.
If anybody wants to understand the media, please watch/read Manufacturing Consent. http://chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=32 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375714499/qid=1119972544/sr=8...
As for trademark infringement, please cut Sarath some slack. Do we want to live in permission culture or in free culture? http://www.free-culture.cc/
Regarding renaming xmms to linamp, again do we want to take permission from the powers that be every time? Is it a world worth striving for? living in?
I think Sarath has all the rights to do what he has done.
And regarding the nonsense of piracy, please read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy
-Krishna
--- "Dileep M. Kumar" dileep@gmx.net wrote:
Hello GNUHeads,
I just saw a program (samakalikam) in Kairali TV. They were showing Sharat Lakshman and his newly developed OS "SLYNUX". I hope you all also read this mail.. Sharat.
We had lot of discussions on this topic some months back. At last Sharat himself told us that he just remastered knoppix
(http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-January/002756.html).
But right from the news in Hindu, he claims that he build an OS based on linux and it is user-friendly like Windows. This is making false impression in majority of public (who are non-IT people).
In TV program he was telling that he renamed xmms to linamp and gaim to slynux messenger so that people who come from windows world understand easily. Does these products allow to change their name like this. Also names like My computer, My documents are trademark of Microsoft, IAC. He uses these terms to make SLYNUX mimic like windows. These are trademark infringement. His new site www.slynux.co.nr has proofs (screenshots) to support this.
He now invite the community to join the slynux development. This can put others also in danger.
What is your goal, sharat ? If you want to advocate the advantage of FS, this is not a good way, IMO. Hackers from different part of the world work hard to achieve this goal, join them. See distros like Mandrake, Fedora, Ubuntu ...
Just renaming the efforts of those hackers and gaining cheap popularity is bad. May be you are too young to understand this. Atleast your parents (or the people who support you) should understand this. You are really insulting the hackers who build knoppix and other GNU tools bundled with it.
If you are a real hacker, join with savannah or similar group of hackers.
Regards
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