Open Letter To Mammootty: Difference between revisions

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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 ( 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.


Operating systems, it says, 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
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


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.
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.