On 10/25/07, krishnakant Mane
<researchbase(a)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.
I have handeled the press more than your experience and even after
getting the things right, these people have a habbit of not printing
the right thing, I don't go to the printing press to see if what ever
has been varified varified varyfied is being printed.
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.
I need not learn how to talk to press from you.
for your kind information there are audio records of my prdess press
conference and you can send them to forensic lab to varify my voice.
and by the way I had been a reporter myself and even I had done
reporting when you were a kid.
and I was thinking thta before this email that you were reacting out
of lak of knowledge but even after the clearification from people
like nagarjun, if you still point fingers at the wrong person then let
me tel you that ur your arrogance will take you no where. you say
that I said the wrong things even without hearing my breafing. that
itself reflects your level of maturity and understanding.
and one more thing I don't do work for your congradulations or
appreciation and I very well know what I do. at least when I was of
your age I was never as rood to tell the person that I am the only
knowledgeble person and "who the hel are you?"
at least after knowing whos mistake it was, I would never send such
emails saying "you absolutely don't know how to speak etc." that to
without knowing the experience of the person in question. I need not
mention as nagarjun already did, that I not just breafed about the
freedom aspect but also underlined it. and I think you better learn
to react properly, your thoughts were exactly as mine were but your
words are absolutely smakked with arogance.
regards,
Krishnakant.
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
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