V. Sasi Kumar wrote:

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 11:13, Manilal wrote:

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Hello everybody, The media in Kerala is always keen in attacking Free Sostware especially GNU/Linux. Today one of the (mis)leading newspaper, viz Malayala Manorama came up with a "striking discovery" about the reason why IT at School failed. The author P.Kishore has some very interesting findings. The deterioration that caused IT is due to "Swathanthra Software".

We need to react to such news as soon as possible. Manorama is not a newspaper I read, so I did not come across the news. I think those of us who come across such news should make it a point to immediately react to it by sending a letter to the Editor of the newspaper. Perhaps, we can find other places also to take up such issues, but the first response should be to the newspaper that publishes the report.

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Yesterday also there was a report on Linux but it was not directly dealt with "Swathanthra software". He(reporter) has also concern about the "Project Shiksha" of Microsoft. Today a half page editorial is against Free Software.

Perhaps there could be an official response from the FSF to such editorials?

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The motivation behind such reports is not clear but I believe that it's part of the politics.I think these matters have an adverse effect on the public about Swathanthra Software especially in the occassion of Stallman's visit and WSF.

I don't think there could be much effect on the visit of RMS or on WSF. In the long run, the effect could be more on the credibility of the newspaper!

Regards

Could it be a well timed plant in the media to mislead the public? regards