Dear Friends,<div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Thanks for pointing out that some of the speakers used&nbsp;proprietary&nbsp;software in FSFS conference. It is a serious mistake and&nbsp;</div><div>I will be taking this up in organising committee of the conference to ensure that this mistake is not repeated.&nbsp;</div>
<div><br></div><div>I talked to the person in charge of the technical track and he said two or three speakers in technical track used&nbsp;proprietary&nbsp;operating system.&nbsp;</div><div>It seems that they had their development environment setup in their laptops with&nbsp;proprietary OS hence wanted to use their laptop.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately&nbsp;no one&nbsp;pointed out this at the venue. Otherwise we could have corrected there itself. Most of the free software activists</div><div>were spending their time in Policy track and exhibition.&nbsp;</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the policy track, participants objected to speakers when they took position which was not acceptable to free software&nbsp;</div><div>community.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>I request my friends to raise voices when ever you see these kinds of mistakes. By raising your voice and protesting,&nbsp;</div>
<div>we will be able to better educate others. Mistakes can be an&nbsp;opportunity&nbsp;for education.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Couple of other points raised in blogs:</div><div><br></div><div>1. I dont think it is wrong to show windows like theme in the exhibition.&nbsp;</div>
<div>2. One blogger try to ridicule free software&nbsp;activists&nbsp;as fanatics.&nbsp;Another blogger finds fault in stating that free software is a social movement.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards</div><div>Arun</div>
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