Read Richard Stallman's mail - Fsf-friends

29 Nov 2002

Hi Mr. Ajith

I am shocked at the way you have interpreted my quest for ever improvement. 
According to your interpretation, all the CRITICS carry some kind of 
infiriority complex ? Brother, i am just asking all my friends to improve. I 
will quote Richard Stallman's mail posted on fsf-friends, where he says that 
common user has to be taken serious care of.

I have failed to understand why cant we take criticism in the right spirit. 
Are we so closed in our thinking? Friend i am not bothered about what has 
been achieved by FSF. I am really curious on how we can improve more.

I am very proud of what has been achieved by FSF and am equally aware of 
where we are lacking. Now please dont tell be that we are perfect. THERE IS 
A LOT OF SCOPE OF IMPROVEMENT and I am doing my bit for it in 3 projects at 
GNU. My criticism has been taken very well at the global forums. Our Indian 
fourm is the only place where some people are taking a negative view of it. 
Brothers please cool down, this is a quest for improvement not any kind of 
infiriority complex.

i would be really proud to have someone from FSF-India contribute a 
mainstream or futuristic project and make it to GNU/Linux OS. Be sure i am 
working on some projects myself.

At the end, It is really easy to judge and comment, but really difficult to 
contribute. lets worry about contributing. Be sure i am doing my bit.

regards,
Tarun Gaur

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 From: Ajith Kumar &lt;ajith(a)nsc.ernet.in&gt;
To: Tarun Gaur &lt;gaur_tarun(a)hotmail.com&gt;
Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] (no subject)
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:29:35 +0530

Tarun Gaur wrote:

  Dear friend Suraj,

 We live in a world that moves at a very fast pace. In today's world,  people
  value quality over price in most of the
situations. And yes cost of
 ownership does matter, but never at the price of quality.

 Now, we are evangalists supporting the same movement. A movement that  brings
  people and ideas togather to create free
software. It intends to
 realize the vision of a genius called Richard Stallman.

 but friend, I have some questions for you.

 Do Richard Stallman and GNU ask us not to praise and be aware of what is
 happening in the properietary world ?

 Are we hampered by any force to write software as good as the  properietary
  world ? 
I think you have some inferiority complex about Free Software.  There are 
many
areas free software is better than
proprietary one. Just think about the recent virus attacks on NT servers
running IIS.
Apache fared better.

we don't need to be that apologetic. Be proud of the good work you are 
doing.
Even if you give the 'whole world' for
a single click some people will not be happy if there is not a LOGO of some 
big
MNC.

regards

ajith 

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