Dear Niyam, Thanks for your mail which is giving me mixed feelings about what you have written. I was wondering snce evening when I sw your mail as to how can a person like you make mistake about using the word like "rants" and when I saw your another mail where you have explained the diferences in different words and their meaning (old - veteran, marriage - wedding, etc.) I got it more clear. But still let me ask you clearly :
Why do you use the derogatory word like "rant" to my comments/mails/issues ? While you, like anyone else, have full liberty to have your own views about everything, doe that give you a right to publicly use derogatory remarks against another member of the group ? Is that how you want things to "return towards civilization" ? I suggest and request you to please make a note of the fact your using such words go against the very purpose of your mail and you need to avoid them. I trust you will understand the hurt feelings caused by your mail. Nor regarding the other points: I had to miss the good & positive meeting of 20th April as I was busy in making preparation of an event at bangalore which is taking place on 22 & 23. I am looking forward to the minutes etc. to get a fair ides of the positive things that happened there. My thanks to Amit who hosted this meet. You see how the people in Commercial field are open to supporting Linux ? I had also hosted a meeting at my office in malviya nagar (couldn't afford the tea-cofee-pizza though) and had offered that the meetings can be held there at any time (pre-planned). The offer still remains. I had also got SCO to give their place at CP for the monthly meetings. But all these things never materialised for the reasons that are raised as the issues that I am talking of. And, by the way, to say that my mail was triggered by the mail of Manish will only mean to ignore the issues being raised. I also hope the civilised behaviour to be there. On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 17:22, LinuxLingam wrote: > dear sudhir, > > been reading your rants on linux-delhi of the last few days triggered by > manish's email. > > simple observations: > > 1) wish you had attended the ilug-d meet on sunday at effectsoft. > dr ajay shah gave a brilliant talk on IPR, copyleft, patents, etc. > obviously, the talk and the subsequent discussion would have been more > 'holistic' if you were there to present your counter-points as well. > > 2) the 'energy' of linux-delhi is self-evident. our deepest appreciation to > amit of effectsoft, who hosted, on a hot, sunday afternoon, the ilug-d with > over 30 participants, with tea, snacks, some net access, use of a > conference/training room, etc. my appreciation deepens when i realized the > eminent dr ajay shah delivered a brilliant and well-researched talk on IPR, > copyleft, patents, at effectsoft, which is into creating proprietory and > non-GPL software on a turn-kay basis, on linux, for its international > affliates. > > 3) why don't you do something similar as well? encourage and embrace the > discussion, the more contrasting it is to your viewpoints, the better. a > discussion by leading thinkers, on the future of software end-user licenses, > and busines models for software packages, held/co-organized, etc by sudhir, > with people from all viewpoints, would be excellent. > and all of us, would finally have the freedom to arrive at our own individual > decisions. > > you have stated that you would like to contribute to the linux community for > what all it has given to you. perhaps this could be one way. > > such an approach hopefully, will also tone down the use of provocative, > sensationalist, terms and phrases. > > i look forward to the return of civilization ushered in by the people of > linux-delhi. > > :-) > LL -- Peace, Force & Joy! Sudhir Gandotra. Transform lives: http://humanistmovement.org/ !!! Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You !!! ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org