dear tarun,
thanks for your response.
On Saturday 15 March 2003 11:41 am, you wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 21:10, Raj Mathur wrote:
>
> From my perspective "Use the situation to the advantage of FLOSS".
> Reality check is important. Lets not loose sight of what is achievable.
'loose' means 'dheela'. 'lose' means 'kho dena'.
i hope what we achieve is not 'dheela'.
:-)
>
> What looks really achievable at the moment is make the OEMs eat crow on
> the cost of bundled software.
i feel what is achievable is the whole hog, not just making the OEMs eat crow.
recommending the govt to tax all software sold for a price.
> OEMs have given all sorts of reasons in the past to avoid refunding
> money for bundled software including reimbursement of excise.
> And then repaying only their actual cost of acquisition of Software and
> not the perceived value they claimed they offered to their customers
> which they advertised.
you are correct, but are focussing on only *one* aspect of the problem. there
are several aspects: even with software not OEM bundled. problems of
anti-competitive behaviour, lack of consumer choice, lack of open standards,
backdoors, invasion of privacy, the concept of 'treachorous computing' versus
the hyped 'trusted computing'. blah blah blah. the list is almost endless.
> So removal of excise on the bundled should help FLOSS(Imagine hordes of
> people happy to save so much money by making the OEM unbundle software).
imagine the many more hordes of people happy to have a choice, freedom,
alternatives, opportunities, more innovative software, inheriting a world
cultural heritage, ushering in a new more healthy value system, especially
for the newer generations... so much more than i can mention here.
tarun, i urge you to consider the much larger picture.
free your mind. your software will follow.
:-)
LL
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