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</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:59 PM, sathish balachandran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sathumenon@rediffmail.com">sathumenon@rediffmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
He did a good job by presenting a lot of points against opensource. But Why he is using wordpress for this? <br>
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On Wed, 20 May 2009 14:22:17 +0530 wrote<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
>The blog post was made, of course from the author's perspective, there <br>
>are quiet a few replies to it that tries to correct the ideas <br>
>conceived by the author. I had had a quick chat with someone earlier <br>
>this week on the same post. I just thought I'd share my mind on this ..<br>
><br>
>All those who understand FOSS may not just advocate it. I think 'thats <br>
>okay'. They dont need to and at least it wouldn't make any negative <br>
>propaganda and damage the cause.<br>
><br>
>But those who advocate it SHOULD be very careful about the words they <br>
>choose, the idea they propose, and the facts that they convey. To be <br>
>very specific to this case, what I believe is, all those who had <br>
>discussed FOSS with the author, must have done more of "MSoft Bashing" <br>
>than talk about FOSS. I think FOSS should be suggested as one of the <br>
>options and not imposed as the only option.<br>
><br>
>Regards<br>
>Roshin Roy<br>
><br>
>On 20-May-09, at 1:40 PM, Althaf k Backer wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I found this from kenney jacob's blog which was<br>
>> highlighted to his readers from another blog-<br>
>> Well this is quite interesting !!<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.simplyfy.co.in/blog/index.php/2009/05/13/pure-act-of-madness-and-sheer-ignorance/" target="_blank">http://www.simplyfy.co.in/blog/index.php/2009/05/13/pure-act-of-madness-and-sheer-ignorance/</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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>> Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its <br>
>> friends are.<br>
>> "Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die <br>
>> tomorrow"<br>
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