On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 00:38 +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote: > Not directly related to Fedora..and not that this article provides you > something new.. > But worth taking a look. It's good to see that people are discussing > and advocating FLOSS. > > 'Here are two links > > 1. http://www.anandabazar.com/11bus2.htm > This is from a Bangla newspaper (A Indian regional language And > Official language of Bangladesh). > I am not translating the whole article.. > > It says that IT minister of West Bengal advocated for FLOSS and > encourges using Linux > in schools,colleges.He hopes that this reduction in cost will produce > more manpower and increase the reach of technology and will take > technology to a wider audience. > > > 2. The second one is from The statesman.Titled: Digital freedom structured. > > "Sometime ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation was > quoted in the Associated Press as saying, "Proprietary software > companies hand out free copies for the same reason that cigarette > companies give sample packs to college kids ~ to encourage addiction." > > http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=4&id=173454&usrsess=1 > > -- > ssh > 0x86DD170A > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SusmitShannigrahi That's great! I'm happy to see that some countries are starting to see the advantages of using FLOSS. It's a pity that some of our politicians are saying "cheap country" and are still using expenxive proprietary software, which is also much worser than FLOSS... Regards, Pawel -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
