Open Letter To Mammootty: Difference between revisions

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It is high time that you understood the implications and ramifications of your support for Microsoft. It seriously undermines your role  as a socially committed artist, progressive media leader and sympathizer of leftist politics.
It is high time that you understood the implications and ramifications of your support for Microsoft. It seriously undermines your role  as a socially committed artist, progressive media leader and sympathizer 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 enriched the culture of Kerala and India, please do set an example by using and promoting Swathanthra Software. You are already using GNU/Linux and Apache webserver for your site Mammootty.com.
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 enriched the culture of Kerala and India, please do set an example by using and promoting Swathanthra Software. You are already using GNU/Linux and Apache webserver (both are free software) for your site: http://www.mammootty.com.


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 proponent of Swathanthra software to achieve your mission to help make all sections of the society IT literate
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 proponent of Swathanthra software to achieve your mission to help make all sections of the society IT literate