Mammotty ll soon ...brand ambassidor of MICROSOFT

[V K Adarsh]

Microsoft will be signing up Malayalam movie star Mammootty as one of the brand ambassador for the Computer Literacy programme that will soon organize in Kerala.

Earlier Mammootty was offered Rupees Two crores to associate with the Coco Cola but the star refused the offer since of the gripe from many political and social organizations in Kerala, which are against this multinational.

so it is the high time to protest. and the same thing we can use as a platform to raise some facts on proprietary software and money nexus

On 16/04/2008, Anoop John <anoo...@gmail.com> wrote:

We could have a candle light vigil at the end of the trip during the
meetings in both the above cases.
Anoop

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[Anivar Aravind]

V K Adarsh wrote:
> Microsoft will be signing up Malayalam movie star Mammootty as one of
> the brand ambassador for the Computer Literacy programme that will soon
> organize in Kerala.
>

Is it confirmed? Please verify

> Earlier Mammootty was offered Rupees Two crores to associate with the
> Coco Cola but the star refused the offer since of the gripe from many
> political and social organizations in Kerala, which are against this
> multinational.
>

One of the interesting campaigns at that time was collecting Rs 1 from
normal people to support the actor (to deny cocacola's money) by
mamootty fans in kochi.
It attracteda lot of attention at that time. Can we do a similar
exercise to corner this move? (if it is true)

We will approch people give a free software CD and collect Rs 15 for
,media and send that money to mammooty

[ശ്യാം കാരനാട്ട് | shyam karanattu]

Is it confirmed? Please verify

+1

One of the interesting campaigns at that time was collecting Rs 1 from
normal people to support the actor (to deny cocacola's money) by
mamootty fans in kochi.
It attracteda lot of attention at that time. Can we do a similar
exercise to corner this move? (if it is true)

We will approch people give a free software CD and collect Rs 15 for
,media and send that money to mammooty

more than ideal thing to do...i am eagerly waiting for the confirmation;-)

[V K Adarsh]

www.aol.in/bollywood/story/2008040806139012000006/India/index.html

[ashik salahudeen]

First, an open letter to mammootty. We will pay for it to be published in the dailies.

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[Rajiv Nair]

Yeah. The open letter sounds like a good first step. Then if there's no response we'll do the thing anivar chettan suggested.

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[V K Adarsh]

yes we can prepare an open letter to mammooty. then pass it to Dr.Ekbal,Dr.RVG,Arun,........after a few oppu, we send it to dailes for publication, at least it ll find space in letters to editor. Its mammotty on one side so ppl ll notice and freesoftware intiatives ll get a space whether mammooty accept it or not.

[ashik salahudeen]

i was talking about payin newspapers to publish it.

[Anivar Aravind]

V K Adarsh wrote:
> yes we can prepare an open letter to mammooty. then pass it to
> Dr.Ekbal,Dr.RVG,Arun,........after a few oppu, we send it to dailes for
> publication, at least it ll find space in letters to editor. Its
> mammotty on one side so ppl ll notice and freesoftware intiatives ll get
> a space whether mammooty accept it or not.
>

Yes. It is surely a big opportunity for a campaign. I feel we can start
drafting it very soon. let various groups sent open letters. Let us
write open letter in a Wiki way. Draft a letter in FOSS community of
india wiki here http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty
and ask people to endorse it in wiki. we dont have much time left

Also people like adarsh can write about it on Weeklies like Mathrubhumi
about it.

[Anivar Aravind]

An Idea. Lets have a poster with mammoties famous cooling glass
with a caption dont allow M$ to mask your eyes & freedom . Lets develop it

[Rajiv Nair]

^^ +1

[Rajiv Nair]

As long as mammotty fans dont manhandle us. Syam chetta are you listening?? :D:D

[Nishan Naseer]

<news-snip>
Mammootty said he wants to launch the project to help make all sections of the society IT literate.
</news-snip>

May be we can offer him better ways to do that !

Best,
Nishan

[Anoop John]

I think this is Microsoft's way of sneaking into Akshaya through the
back door. Isn't there anybody here who has ties with the higher ups
to see what they can do. Vimal? James?

[ashik salahudeen]

Draft of open letter. All, please make modifications ASAP. Correct me if i have gone wrong , even provide an alternate content if you think better. We need to get this online and have to send this to mass media.


This letter is to express our disappointment in your involvement with Microsoft to launch their e-literacy program in kerala in spite of you being the brand ambassador to Akshaya. We are assuming that you were not given enough information about the IT Scenario in the state.

Software is a tool and a means with which we can achieve a lot of things. In this respect , it is similar to infrastructure like roads and rails . Using Microsoft software is akin to using a road built by a private agency who levies a charge for its use. Any further development to that road and the terms of usage of that road will be subject to that private agency alone however insane it be. Free Software is like an alternate road , with equal or better quality. It is community owned - public property. Which modifications has to be done , what has to be done and where it has to be done is driven by public need and is not subject to the whims of a private company.


When we use Microsoft's products , which do not comply to open standards and are never owned in the true sense , we are subjecting ourselves to what is called vendor lock in. They can end their support our computer systems whenever they will want to. We will be left hanging in the air when they demand more money for upgrades to their software ( which  as past has shown , requires more expense in the form of hardware requirements ) . we will be left without a choice. We do not want a society dependent on a company for any need.

There are equally good , community owned alternative to Microsoft products, which comply to open standards ( which means that anyone can make software that implement them , without licensing costs and be assured that it will remain interoperable with other similar software ) and we have succesfully introduced it to our children and students ( tomorrow's citizen's ) in schools. At this stage , your actions endorsing Microsoft's products will be damageing to efforts that strive to bring about open standards and free society.

As a great man who has added to the culture of Kerala and India , kindly set an example by using Free , open Source Software as our government has done.

We as a body that strives to support open standards and free society through free software , request you to reconsider your decision. We will provide more information should you require it.

[Anivar Aravind]

Put it on wiki. we can edit there

> ഐആര്‍സി ചാനല്‍: irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> ലെ #smc-project

[Anivar Aravind]

edit it on below link. So we can easily track changes
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty

> ഐആര്‍സി ചാനല്‍: irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> ലെ #smc-project

[ashik salahudeen]

All,

OPen letter to Mammooty is now finalised and is available at

http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty

Please go there and add your name to the end of the list  . Read through the letter first ok ?



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[ashik salahudeen]

Forgot to mention something in the previous message. Those of you who don't have blogs/websites can use www.ilug-tvm.org as their URL.

[Anivar Aravind]

ashik salahudeen wrote:
> Forgot to mention something in the previous message. Those of you who
> don't have blogs/websites can use www.ilug-tvm.org

> <http://www.ilug-tvm.org> as their URL.
>
I request all bloggers to blog it and links on
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty/Protest_Blog_Posts

[sajith kumar]

I have send an openletter to mammooty for co-operating the open souce software.

[Rajeev J Sebastian]

2008/4/18 ashik salahudeen <aas...@gmail.com>:

> All,
>
> OPen letter to Mammooty is now finalised and is available at
>
> http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty
>
> Please go there and add your name to the end of the list . Read through the
> letter first ok ?

Its really wierd but these URLs indicate that mamooty's site runs on IIS:

http://www.mammootty.com/my_favourites.htm

http://www.mammootty.com/my_impressions.htm

.... Or maybe there's something wrong with my browser ?

Regards
Rajeev J Sebastian

[Praveen A]

2008/4/18 Anivar Aravind <ani...@movingrepublic.org>:

> I request all bloggers to blog it and links on
> http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty/Protest_Blog_Posts

Digg the story
http://digg.com/microsoft/Mammooty_don_t_join_hands_with_Microsoft

and vote for it
http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty
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[Praveen A]

2008/4/18 Praveen A <pra...@gmail.com>:

> Digg the story
> http://digg.com/microsoft/Mammooty_don_t_join_hands_with_Microsoft
>
> and vote for it
> http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty

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[ashik salahudeen]

Slashdot it ! ...

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=631196

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CGI Error

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

Can't open perl script "D:\hshome\newclear\mammootty.com\vyttila\nikopolis\old\enquiry-submited.pl": No such file or directory

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[Anivar Aravind]

Praveen A wrote:
> 2008/4/18 Praveen A <pra...@gmail.com>:
>> Digg the story
>> http://digg.com/microsoft/Mammooty_don_t_join_hands_with_Microsoft
>>
>> and vote for it
>> http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty
>
> ആര്‍ക്കെങ്കിലും മമ്മൂട്ടിയുടെ വിലാസമറിയുമോ? എന്നാല്‍ കത്തായി തന്നെ
> അയയ്ക്കാമായിരുന്നു.

But after the endorsements

Anivar

[കേരളഫാര്മര്/Keralafarmer]

Open Letter To Mammooty -  Search in Google will give results.

[ashik salahudeen]

Hi all,

Things seem to be a bit slow, only 40 people so far. Do visit

http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammootty

and add your name there if you agree with whats written .

If you have blogged about this then you can add it at

http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty/Protest_Blog_Posts

[ashik salahudeen]

I have posted a story at

http://www.ilug-tvm.org/content/another-ms-dirty-tactics

expressing my views and and briefly explaining the situation.