On 10/25/07, krishnakant Mane researchbase@gmail.com wrote:
following are my coments and reaction to this thread and I want this to be the last one.
that is NOT your decision.
firstly I can Understand that vihan reacted without complete knowledge of what was actually said in the conference. so although his feelings are justified but those were not just a bit rood but also targetted towards the wrong people.
if you bothered to make sure that the interviewer got his facts right and made that a pre-condition before giving the interview or even asked for a review of the article before it went online and had it corrected it accordingly it would not have gotten my strong response. In fact i would have giving my congratulations.
he is too young and I can understand his over excitement in which he may have targetted his feelings to the wrong person at the wrong place.
With this statement you clearly prove that understanding is not a function of age. You have NO RIGHT to make that statement since you did not have the foresight to know the ramifications of what you said in pubic and had absolutely no understanding of how to speak to the press.
Don't go about touting wisdom as a response to messing up.
In fact you ought to apologise for not making sure how the article turned out.
my only advice to him is that when it comes to comenting about such things, first confirm from a person who is more experienced about what was the reality.
You still don't get it do you, that article has probably been viewed by hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people all over the world. How many do you think are going about confirming what is true and what isn't? The damage has been done because you were not careful.
i mearly pointed it out if it wasn't me it would have been someone else.
as an cineor person with 10+ years of experience, my only advice is "think before you go on records ".
i think that is a highly ridiculous statement to make as ``senior" people with ``experience" would know how to handle a situation like this.
Did you THINK before going on the record? Believe me i certainly did and i would gladly do it all over again all the same.
that will leave less chances to oppologise later.
i haven't and have no reason to apologise to anyone.
You screwed up you MUST apologise to the GNU and GNOME projects.
nagarjun, thanks for responding late but only after confirming things. I have been a reporter myself for about 5 years
Either that is a lie or you are seriously stupid.
If you have been a reporter for 5 years this should NEVER have have happened.
and now into this IT field for 10 years, I very well understand the dynamics of how things get presented by the media.
Either that is a lie or you are VERY seriously stupid.
as nagarjun rightly said, we need to seriously speak to the media. secondly, I don't think we must insult the gnu/linux project by only giving importance to the "free of charge " aspect.
if you really believe that then you ought to make sure such incidents don't happen.
although when a screen reader would cost rs. 70000 for a single license, cost factor is equally important for an average blind person, given today's economic condition of those people. employment is difficult to come because if the employer has to pay 70000 rs just to employ a blind employee, he will think 10 times before doing that. and what if the blind person then leaves the job? the investment is waisted. but there are other more important issues as well. think about this case, one of my studant named Balaram from Kerala had a job offer from Taj group. they had a software which he was expected to use. but the proprietory software in question was not at all compatible with what he was supposed to use. now, had the source code of this software been open, it would have the possibility of modification and thus being adopted to that particular software. but nither the company took responsibility nor released any part of the software for modification. so the issue is not about cost (the taj group was ready to pay in the above case ), the issue is about the freedom to modify that software and after that use those modifications for who ever got that opportunity to be employed. so one should understand that freedom is not just the matter of philosophy but it applies to practical life.
No one has disputed the practical benefits of free software on this thread. Or are you justifying your mistake by saying the article was absolutely fine? If the case is latter please don't go about giving people the illusion that you are pro freedom in software.
Regards,
- vihan