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'''Open Letter to Mammootty to Reconsider Promotion of M$ and and their Proprietary Softwares''' | '''Open Letter to Mammootty to Reconsider Promotion of M$ and and their Proprietary Softwares''' | ||
We request all of you to blog on this and add your link to [[/Protest_Blog_Posts | Protest Blog posts]]page. | We request all of you to blog on this and add your link to [[/Protest_Blog_Posts | Protest Blog posts]]page. | ||
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Microsoft will be [http://www.aol.in/bollywood/story/2008040806139012000006/India/index.html signing up] Malayalam movie star [http://www.mammootty.com Mammootty] as one of the brand ambassadors for the Computer Literacy programme that is to be organized soon in Kerala, a Southern Indian State well known for its pro-free software policies. This is an open letter by Free Software Activists, Supporters and Users of Kerala to Mammootty. | Microsoft will be [http://www.aol.in/bollywood/story/2008040806139012000006/India/index.html signing up] Malayalam movie star [http://www.mammootty.com Mammootty] as one of the brand ambassadors for the Computer Literacy programme that is to be organized soon in Kerala, a Southern Indian State well known for its pro-free software policies. This is an open letter by Free Software Activists, Supporters and Users of Kerala to Mammootty. | ||
=== | ===Open Letter to Mamootty from Free Software Community=== | ||
Dear Bharat Mammootty, | Dear Bharat Mammootty, | ||
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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 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 | 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. | ||
We are assuming that you were not given enough information about the IT Scenario we live in. | We are assuming that you were not given enough information about the IT Scenario we live in. | ||
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അതുകൊണ്ടു് താങ്കള്‍ ഈ ഉദ്യമത്തില്‍ നിന്നു പിന്തിരിയണമെന്നും മറ്റുള്ള സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങള്‍ക്കും വിദേശരാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ക്കും മാതൃകയായിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ഇവിടുത്തെ സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ പ്രചാരത്തിനെ പരിപോഷിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ സഹായിക്കണമെന്നും അഭ്യര്‍ത്ഥിക്കുന്നു. | അതുകൊണ്ടു് താങ്കള്‍ ഈ ഉദ്യമത്തില്‍ നിന്നു പിന്തിരിയണമെന്നും മറ്റുള്ള സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങള്‍ക്കും വിദേശരാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ക്കും മാതൃകയായിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ഇവിടുത്തെ സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ പ്രചാരത്തിനെ പരിപോഷിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ സഹായിക്കണമെന്നും അഭ്യര്‍ത്ഥിക്കുന്നു. | ||
=== | === Endorsed by === | ||
==== Organisations ==== | ==== Organisations ==== | ||
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#[http://ilug-tvm.org GNU Linux Users Group- Thiruvanathapuram] | #[http://ilug-tvm.org GNU Linux Users Group- Thiruvanathapuram] | ||
#[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] | |||
==== Individuals ==== | ==== Individuals ==== | ||
('''Please add name in alphabetical order''') | |||
# [http://anivar.movingrepublic.org Anivar Aravind] | # [http://anivar.movingrepublic.org Anivar Aravind] | ||
# [http://gnuism.blogspot.com Anoop Panavalappil] | # [http://gnuism.blogspot.com Anoop Panavalappil] | ||
# [http://www.ilug-tvm.org Ashik Salahudeen] | |||
# [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] | ||
# [http://logbookofanobserver.blogspot.com/ Jinesh K J] | |||
# Justin Joseph | |||
# [http://www.ilug-tvm.org Nishan Naseer] | |||
# [http://pramode.net Pramode C.E] | |||
# [http://santhoshtr.livejournal.com Santhosh Thottingal] | # [http://santhoshtr.livejournal.com Santhosh Thottingal] | ||
=== Relates Links === | |||
# [http://www.aol.in/bollywood/story/2008040806139012000006/India/index.html Microsoft, Mammootty to launch Kerala e-literacy programme] | |||
# [http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/04/stories/2007030411510400.htm CPI(M) supports Free software] | |||
# [http://www.globalisation.eu/briefings/competition-policy/unbundling-microsoft-windows-200709231241/ Globalization Institute's submission to European Union] | |||
# [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html Kerala schools use free software] | |||
# [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html What is Free Software?] | |||
# [http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/09/stories/2008030953940500.htm ORUMA: the result of KSEB’s concerted efforts] | |||
[[Category:Campaigns]] | [[Category:Campaigns]] | ||