[BangPypers] [OT] Microsoft Office 365 for Education made mandatory for approved institutions by AICTE

[Kaushik Kalyanaraman]

10 replies to Godwin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law. Good
job folks ! [/s]

But, seriously, and even though even this reply is completely OT to
the interests of this list, please try to provide your own reasons in
your own words without sensationalizing with quotes, etc. At least
then, some may be sympathetic (not claiming I am or I am not) to your
cause. Otherwise, it equally well reeks of FUD on your part.

Finally, people who are "religious" about FOSS (or other open source
movements) should stop for a tiny bit to figure out if their militant
propositioning pans out in the larger scheme of things. For example, I
notice that OP as well as other defendant(s) are using Gmail. So,
could they (or others) please enlighten me as to whether Gmail or
Google, and by extension the internet itself (including intermediate
routers, ISP server -- software as well as hardware components, etc.;
you get the picture) is all built on the notion of openness that they
are probably advocating in their "linux vs windows" battle. (For the
record, I use neither.) If not, and if this is a fight against some
notion of corporate greed, then why only in this particular instance ?
I don't think that people aren't posting OT discussions to these lists
proclaiming an urgent need for fight against corruption and/or other
systemic deficiencies in the Indian context.

tl;dr: Please follow ground rules and do not post these OT
discussions. Also, please don't provide your defense or get all
apologetic about why this needs to be posted here, especially after
being pointed to.

Thanks !

-Kaushik

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
> The reason FOSCOMM was setup some years ago was because various such groups
> actually have some common interests.
>
> There are times when we need to get together to defend even other
> technologies and platforms. If we continue to declare "Not here" without
> constructively figuring out if the discussion can be carried out elsewhere,
> vested interests like MS will pick out areas one after the other, and there
> wouldn't be enough voices when it's a specific group's turn to face their
> brunt.
>
> Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came
>
> I'd attended the initial FOSCOMM meet at CIS, but I think it died out after
> that.
>
> -- Ram
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Santosh Kumar <san00718 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Also there is another vdry active community of linux users,
>> Free Software Movement Karnataka(FSMK),
>> www.fsmk.org
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar <
>> benignbala at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:20 PM, स्वक्ष <svaksha at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar
>> > > <benignbala at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Try Bengaluru LUG  → http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru
>> > > And/Or,
>> > > Fosscomm.in's General Discussions on Campaigns and Tasks  →
>> > > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
>> >
>> >
>> >         Thanks for the links. I will try Bengaluru LUG. I didn't even
>> > know that we have a LUG in Bangalore :(
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Thank you
>> > Balachandran Sivakumar
>> >
>> > Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached.
>> >                                                              - Swami
>> > Vivekananda
>> >
>> > Mail: benignbala at gmail.com
>> > Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/
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