On 6/28/05, Joe Steeve joe_steeve@gmx.net wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 10:35, Dileep M. Kumar wrote:
But right from the news in Hindu, he claims that he build an OS based on linux and it is user-friendly like Windows. This is making false
...So., I dont think we can actually blame him with anything. Its just unfortunate that the people supporting him in his activities dont realize these things either.
Exactly.. The scenario is such that the most people away from the s/w industry take software for granted, without considering the license... When a non-industrial Indian installs software , they just press "next" when the License page is displayed.. Just as their hardware vendor or the next door "computer guru" had taught them. And for those do(may be if they have nothing else to read and bored ;-) ) they dont care because for most of them avoiding taxes and law is a matter of business and pride. It is a small percentage of "educated" population who care about education. As such people are more have flooded, and communication between really ethical people, with thirst for knowledge Always gets either poisoned or blocked by the other "majority", .As such even for a person who is very ethical who prays to God, you can find him using Pirated Software with all the good glory going on in his mind with the ignorance of Licensing.. You can find educational institution being opened up by lighhting a Lamp in front of the Lord, providing IT education, on Pirated Software. In such a place where people are ignorant that ethics also apply very much to "new technology", you can find plenty of such mistakes like that of Sarath.
In a different angle , There are these so called "Computer People" and "Computer scientists" , upon whom other people used to look as Gods. Their word was always final. These software people or in newer terms "hardware vendors", when questioned about the dialog they used to get about the license, just used to say"just ignore it .. press next". Their words wew final. They were bound to press next. And for the hardware vendors, they too were affected with the pride of avoiding the law. It used to (and still does) gives them the feling "the law doesnt apply to me. i am the King" they dont realise themselves as part of the community. And for those few who did, were crushed by the business of those who didnt.
Sory for getting carried away from the topic a little. There was a stack overflow in my emotions module.
-- .o. A proud GNU user ..o
Me too .. :-)