Open Letter To Mammootty: Difference between revisions

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When we use Microsoft's products , which do not comply to open standards and are never owned in the true sense , we are subjecting ourselves to what is called vendor lock in. They can end their support our computer systems whenever they will want to. We will be left hanging in the air when they demand more money for upgrades to their software ( which as past has shown , requires more expense in the form of hardware requirements also) . We will be left without a choice. We do not want a society dependent on a company for any need.

There are equally good , community owned alternative to Microsoft products, which comply to open standards ~~( which means that anyone~~ can make software that implement ~~them~~ , without licensing costs and be assured that it will remain interoperable with other similar software ) and we have successfully [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html introduced it to our children and students in schools] . At this stage , your actions endorsing Microsoft's products will be damaging to efforts that strive to bring about open standards and free society.

There are equally good , community owned alternative to Microsoft products, which comply to open standards Anyone can make software that implement open standards, without any licensing costs and be assured that it will remain interoperable with other similar software.

~~Operating systems~~, are ~~not a natural monopoly, requiring~~ just one ~~supplier~~. ~~Instead~~, in ~~a competitive market, there would be a broad compatibility between different supplier’s products. Competition would encourage~~ open standards and ~~interoperability as vendors would~~, ~~for competitive reasons, want their products to interact with other vendors’ products~~

The state government's IT policy is based on Free Open Source Software (FOSS). The Central IT Commission also recommends using FOSS. Recently , BIS has voted against standardizing Microsoft's OOXML and has adopted ODF , an open standard. The people and Government of Kerala has identified the superiority and excellence of FOSS and has already [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html introduced it to our schools] and government institutions.

Microsoft has realized that they are being pushed out in favor of superior free and open software.Their move to exploit your fame in the name of e-literacy is just one of their underhanded tactics to push their proprietary software into the market and among the people.Please don't allow this.

We hope that being a thinking man , you will realize the error in endorsing proprietary software and will persist in your mission of bringing about IT to the common man via free software and open standards.As a great man who has added to the culture of Kerala and India , please do set an example by using and promoting Swathanthra Software.

As a great man who has added to the culture of Kerala and India , kindly set an example by using Swathanthra Software as our government has done.

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 When we use Microsoft's products , which do not comply to open standards and are never owned in the true sense , we are subjecting ourselves to what is called vendor lock in. They can end their support our computer systems whenever they will want to. We will be left hanging in the air when they demand more money for upgrades to their software ( which  as past has shown , requires more expense in the form of hardware requirements also) . We will be left without a choice. We do not want a society dependent on a company for any need.
-There are equally good , community owned alternative to Microsoft products, which comply to open standards ( which means that anyone can make software that implement them , without licensing costs and be assured that it will remain interoperable with other similar software ) and we have successfully [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html introduced it to our children and students in schools] . At this stage , your actions endorsing Microsoft's products will be damaging to efforts that strive to bring about open standards and free society.
+There are equally good , community owned alternative to Microsoft products, which comply to open standards Anyone can make software that implement open standards, without any licensing costs and be assured that it will remain interoperable with other similar software.
-Operating systems, are not a natural monopoly, requiring just one supplier. Instead, in a competitive market, there would be a broad compatibility between different supplier’s products. Competition would encourage open standards and interoperability as vendors would, for competitive reasons, want their products to interact with other vendors’ products
+The state government's IT policy is based on Free Open Source Software (FOSS). The Central IT Commission also recommends using FOSS. Recently , BIS has voted against standardizing Microsoft's OOXML and has adopted ODF , an open standard. The people and Government of Kerala has identified the superiority and excellence of FOSS and has already [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html introduced it to our schools] and government institutions.
+Microsoft has realized that they are being pushed out in favor of superior free and open software.Their move to exploit your fame  in the name of e-literacy is just one of their underhanded tactics to push their proprietary software into the market and among the people.Please don't allow this.
+We hope that being a thinking man , you will realize the error in endorsing proprietary software and will persist in your mission of bringing about IT to the common man via free software and open standards.As a great man who has added to the culture of Kerala and India , please do set an example by using and promoting Swathanthra Software.
 As a great man who has added to the culture of Kerala and India , kindly set an example by using Swathanthra Software as our government has done.