On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:50 PM, V. Sasi Kumar
<sasi.fsf@gmail.com> wrote:
You say that if an organisation accepts money from another, then the one
that accepts money should not criticise the donor. This is absolute
nonsense.
... and ...
FSF India will not accept money with conditions attached.
... and ...
Only those who are willing to support under this condition
needs to. We don't ask money from people who do not accept our stand. If
someone willingly gives money, or support, we will accept it.
Amazingly, these are from the same paragraph. When FSFI accepts
money there are not strings attached, but when some one wants to donate
they need to accept a stand. Thats a nice deal.
We objected to IKM using proprietary software, and we have also written
letters about various other governments opting for proprietary software.
No one ever knew when these happened. Lets hope the letters were written 'to' the governments and not 'about' the governments. How many responded and what corrective actions were taken? Why is everything made known only when asked like this? Is it because its a company with 'limited liabilities'?
The protest against IKM was stronger because there is a stronger FS
movement in Kerala compared to other places.
There are strong FS movement in other places also. Why is that we are not putting efforts to make other states to turn to Free Software? Why only on those which themselves have already announced their support to Free Software?
We have explained the accusation of being "undemocratic" in another
thread, and I don't propose to repeat it here.
That was hardly an explanation. When one doesn't believe in democracy in functioning itself, how can one even think of a 'democratic protest' without properly exercising their freedom of speech. Unfortunately, when democracy and freedom of speech is typecast only to 'protests', all kinds of cats are bound to jump out.