Hello, It is clear that the news in Indian Express and Kerala kaumudi are highly fabricated. Immediate steps should be taken to clear all the issues behind the Akshaya project should be sort out. Another recent development is that in yesterday's Malayala Manorama there was a press release by the Microsoft(Sanjeev Mathur).He said that they are going to release the Malayalam version of Windows OS and MS office soon. He also added that MS is going to spend 90 crores for the govt schools in Kerala. The press release also included a statement on anti-free software. The recent developments should be read with this. We must remember that the akshaya project has also a Windows version and it's almost complete. May be someone wishes that the advatages of "Free Software" should not reach the common man Manilal ----- Original Message ----- From: Senthil_OR@Dell.com Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 08:19:35 -0600 To: manilal@linuxmail.org, fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in Subject: RE: [Fsf-friends] Akshaya project

On the whole, it appears that press is report is presented without a good research.

1. The Report was HIGHLY misleading to the general public.

2. A highly inadequate research had been done by the author/editor of that

paper.

3. Incomplete information; half side of the story presented to the public.

We need to inform the newindpress editor, regarding the mistakes they have made and see through that it is corrected.

I have sent a mail yesterday itself and dunno how responsive/responsible newindpress will be.

Senthil