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This letter is to express our deepest disappointment in your involvement with Microsoft to launch their [http://www.aol.in/bollywood/story/2008040806139012000006/India/index.html e-literacy program in Kerala] and is based on the belief that you have high social convictions and commitment to the people of Kerala. | This letter is to express our deepest disappointment in your involvement with Microsoft to launch their [http://www.aol.in/bollywood/story/2008040806139012000006/India/index.html e-literacy program in Kerala] and is based on the belief that you have high social convictions and commitment to the people of Kerala. | ||
Kerala's civil society had in the past been delighted by your decision to dissociate with the coco cola advertisement project as a response to the resource exploitation and pollution caused by the corporate body. However, people of Kerala will be bewildered to see that you are lending your name and fame to support a devastatingly nefarious techno-monopolistic campaign unleashed by Microsoft in our state. We feel your move is both ill-advised and harmful. | Kerala's civil society had in the past been delighted by [http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/03/26/stories/2004032600971500.htm your decision to dissociate with the coco cola advertisement] project as a response to the resource exploitation and pollution caused by the corporate body. However, people of Kerala will be bewildered to see that you are lending your name and fame to support a devastatingly nefarious techno-monopolistic campaign unleashed by Microsoft in our state. We feel your move is both ill-advised and harmful. | ||
Being the Director of a major media initiative (Kairali TV, Malayalam Communications Limited) that claims to be people-oriented both in terms of its initial resource mobilization tactics as well as its professed commitment to people's causes, it is embarrassing to see that such concerns are completely sidelined in favor of a hideous agenda of a major US based multi-national IT giant, despised even in US for its monopolistic tendencies. In fact there are records of this company [http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/08/ooxml_vote using underhanded tactics to enforce its views] on an organization like ISO which maintains international standards for public benefit. | Being the Director of a major media initiative (Kairali TV, Malayalam Communications Limited) that claims to be people-oriented both in terms of its initial resource mobilization tactics as well as its professed commitment to people's causes, it is embarrassing to see that such concerns are completely sidelined in favor of a hideous agenda of a major US based multi-national IT giant, despised even in US for its monopolistic tendencies. In fact there are records of this company [http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/08/ooxml_vote using underhanded tactics to enforce its views] on an organization like ISO which maintains international standards for public benefit. | ||
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#[http://smc.org.in Swathanthra Malayalam Computing] | #[http://smc.org.in Swathanthra Malayalam Computing] | ||
#[http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Malappuram Swathantra Software User Group Malappuram] | #[http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Malappuram Swathantra Software User Group Malappuram] | ||
#[http://plus.sarovar.org Palakkad Libre Software Users Society] | |||
#[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gluc GNU/Linux Users Group Calicut] | |||
#[http://bangalore.gnu.org.in Free Software Users Group Bangalore] | |||
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# [http://anivar.movingrepublic.org Anivar Aravind] | # [http://anivar.movingrepublic.org Anivar Aravind] | ||
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# [http://baijum81.livejournal.com/ Baiju M] | # [http://baijum81.livejournal.com/ Baiju M] | ||
# [http://chandrasekharannair.wordpress.com/ Chandrasekharan Nair S] | # [http://chandrasekharannair.wordpress.com/ Chandrasekharan Nair S] | ||
# Jayesh V | |||
# [http://logbookofanobserver.blogspot.com/ Jinesh K J] | # [http://logbookofanobserver.blogspot.com/ Jinesh K J] | ||
# Justin Joseph | # Justin Joseph | ||
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# [http://sujith-h.livejournal.com Sujith Haridasan] | # [http://sujith-h.livejournal.com Sujith Haridasan] | ||
# Nimesh V | # Nimesh V | ||
# [[User:Pravs|Praveen A] | |||
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