[Fsf-friends] Comrades’ new-found love with IT

[Nishan Naseer]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:59 PM, sandeep sr <sandeep.sr78 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:21 PM, haynes davis <haynesdavis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> >>
> >> The it can be a non-cpim position too. But Branding everything  other
> >> than only -cpim position to Anti-CPIM  position will not help for a
> >> movement.
> >
> > right now non-cpim is a big vacuum regarding free software as far as
> > political and government support is considered. Why our struggle does not
> > seem to be productive in the other states and the central government?
> >
>
> Some of the 'productive' Free Software initiatives by the 'Red' State:
>
> 1.
>
> ** Microsoft to help West Bengal's IT initiative (2001)
> http://www.thehindujobs.com/thehindu/2001/08/30/stories/06300008.htm
>
>
> 2.
>
> ** Microsoft India launches `student PC purchase' programme( in
> partnership with the West Bengal government and Intel Technologies)
> (2005) http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/28/stories/2005102816531100.htm
>
>
> 3.
>
> ** Microsoft inks MoU with West Bengal govt (2004)
> http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/934755.cms
> http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/11/25/stories/2004112504511801.htm
>
> (Just mentioning a few..)
>
> And interestingly, a report on the Congress Govt's (Kerala) move to
> introduce Free Software in Schools.
>
> Stallman's MS-bashing in West Bengal gets ears in Congress-run Kerala
>
> http://www.financialexpress.com/news/stallmans-msbashing-in-west-bengal-gets-ears-in-congressrun-kerala/125979/
>
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** "**The state is ruled by communist politicians and its top elected
official, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, has long been a supporter of
free software, railing against the dominance of Microsoft's Windows when he
was a state legislator.*
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*Despite the denials that Microsoft was the target, opposition leader M.A.
Shahnawaz, of the Congress party, said he believed the decision was based on
the communists'opposition to the software giant's products.

He cited the communists'opposition to a Microsoft-supported computer
training program that the Congress party enacted in 2002 when it ruled the
state."


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More :
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Aug31/0,4670,IndiaWindowsvsLinux,00.html
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