Open Letter To Mammootty: Difference between revisions
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'''Open Letter to Mamootty from Free Software Community''' | '''Open Letter to Mamootty from Free Software Community''' | ||
Dear Mammootty, | Dear Bharat Mammootty, | ||
We are a group of individuals who believe in freedom , free society and free expression of ideas. | We are a group of individuals who believe in freedom , free society and free expression of ideas. | ||
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On http://www.aol.in/bollywood/story/2008040806139012000006/India/index.html IANS Report] you are saying "your mission is to help make all sections of the society IT literate." So we understand your genuine spirit. But selecting the Microsoft help is a wrong choice. making people literate is a way benefit society as a whole.Proprietary software rejects their thirst for knowledge: it says, “The knowledge you want is a secret—learning is forbidden!” Free software encourages everyone to learn. The free software community rejects the “priesthood of technology”, which keeps the general public in ignorance of how technology works. The people and Government of Kerala understood it and has already [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html introduced it to our schools] and government institutions. So we request you to stand for free software and essential freedoms in computing to fullfill your mission | On [http://www.aol.in/bollywood/story/2008040806139012000006/India/index.html IANS Report] you are saying "your mission is to help make all sections of the society IT literate." So we understand your genuine spirit. But selecting the Microsoft help is a wrong choice. making people literate is a way benefit society as a whole.Proprietary software rejects their thirst for knowledge: it says, “The knowledge you want is a secret—learning is forbidden!” Free software encourages everyone to learn. The free software community rejects the “priesthood of technology”, which keeps the general public in ignorance of how technology works. The people and Government of Kerala understood it and has already [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html introduced it to our schools] and government institutions. So we request you to stand for free software and essential freedoms in computing to fullfill your mission | ||
since he has several times expressed his support to the causes upheld by left forces in the country, we hope that it will not be news to you that CPI (M) and other progressive forces in the country have been ardent supporters of free software and as a matter of principle detest Microsoft's monopoly built through trecherous market machinations that even the developed countries unbearable. | since he has several times expressed his support to the causes upheld by left forces in the country, we hope that it will not be news to you that CPI (M) and other progressive forces in the country have been ardent supporters of free software and as a matter of principle detest Microsoft's monopoly built through trecherous market machinations that even the developed countries unbearable. | ||
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it is high time that you need to understand the implicatrions and ramifications of your support for Microsoft. It seriously undermines your role role as a socially committed artist, progressive media leader and sympathiser of leftist politics | it is high time that you need to understand the implicatrions and ramifications of your support for Microsoft. It seriously undermines your role role as a socially committed artist, progressive media leader and sympathiser of leftist politics | ||
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. | 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. | ||
We as a body that strives to support free standards and free society through free software , request you to reconsider your decision | We as a body that strives to support free standards and free society through free software , request you to reconsider your decision and be a proponant of Swatanthra software to achive your mission to help make all sections of the society IT literate | ||
===Malayalam=== | ===Malayalam=== | ||