On 10/28/07, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/28/07, Vihan Pandey vihanpandey@gmail.com wrote:
Please do that and make sure the upper echelons of rediff also go through it and make sure they apologise appropriately and after that you can render your apology as well.
Could Krishnakant/Dr. Nagarjuna please clarify how was it that this press conference came about? What was the theme of the conference? Were there any journalists other than that from Rediff Money involved? If yes then it would be worthwhile going through links to their articles as well to see how they did.
The point is that if it was Rediff Money that approached Krishnakant for an interview regarding this 'low cost software' then they are well within their right to ignore whatever Krishnakant said about freedom, FSF, etc and post only what concerns them -- low cost software for the visually impaired.
Also, I guess the author probably preferred to use Linux as against GNU, FSF, etc since it's simply a better known name, hence relating to a larger audience. To his credit, he at least mentioned 'open source' next to free so that it is not confused with free(beer).
<flame-shield>What is it about GNU/FSF and credits anyways? Somehow nobody in businesses want to mention their name on anything ;)</flame-shield>
-- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in
I hope most are aware that several such "interviews" whether bollywood, corporate, political are staged? Similar to paying big bucks to getting yourself on Page 3 type scenario and having your raunchy music videos aired on MTV/V/B4U...
So one way of getting positive sound bytes is to stage such positive interviews where we can get in whatever we want.. just need a compliant journalist.. and there are plenty out there i am sure. There are several precedents since mythological times where the end has justified the vily means of even our Gods. And seeing the kind of junk that appears in mumbai mirror and mid-day i am sure they would be more than happy to get some of the good (admittedly geeky) stuff in.
Of course, for the current perceived debacle we can always blame the foreign hand.. Seriously though, the warring factions need to get piss drunk together and put all of this behind them.