On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 18:02 +0530, Arvind Kumar Chinniah wrote:
It is not my concern for not making you sit on the Dias stage. First you said you were not invited for the session organize. Then, you accepted that you were invited to hold a session under you. But this is not the actual talk of the discussion.
Since you raised the point, I explained what happened. I said FSF India was not invited to join in organising the conference. Later, I was invited to chair a session.
We are not in a descriptive manner explained about,
- Why the Kochi Conference had a protest against Novell, why cant
that be made when the lend a hand towards you (As you were already informed, the proof is the mail scraps at http://www.gnu.org.in/kochi-conference-communication ). Why on that day, why not before that?
Good question. Please ask the question to those who protested against Novell. I was not informed that Novell was going to be the main sponsor. Even if I was informed, why should I protest? As already explained, neither FSF nor FSF India has a boycott Novell campaign. It is independent. I don't have anything more to say about it.
- Why the Free Software Foundation is not considered to be a Mass
Movement. If its not, its not going to be a community. You spoil the real nature of Democracy (and in turn Freedom) in that.
FSF is not considered a mass movement because its function is different. We have tried to explain this in several mails.
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