Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:

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My choice would be that the Govt. makes it mandatory for all hardware donations to be independent of riders on software that can be installed on them. Legal experts could site some clause about not allowing MRTP in education. Last time we met, Nagarjuna had mentioned about school syllabus having to be independent of brand identities. Then let the donors (anyone) decide whether they can operate under this rule or want to back out. That will also help the public get a better understanding of the benefactors. As an organization, FSF India could prod the Govt. into making this rule. We can write a letter with all our signatures and send it to the PM and other Ministries. We could all meet at HBCSE to sign this letter.

Better still would be an online petition.

http://www.ipetitions.com www.petitiononline.com

I will follow up on this since I am now based in Delhi.

Do the politicians take note of online petitions? There is so much online activity going on. Since you are in Delhi, sending a nice paper letter across to the Ministries would be more attention grabbing. We could format a common letter and GLUG-BOM could meet this Sunday and add signatures. That mail is then couriered to a common place in Delhi where other GLUGs do the same. Then all the mails are sent across to the PM's office in person.