Boycott Novell Protesters Manhandled In India

James Mathew writes "This is an interesting story from Kerala, India, where the ruling Communist Party organized a national conference in its efforts to hijack the Free Software Movement, which has enviable roots in the state. They got Novell to sponsor it. On the second day of the conference, a few free software activists who displayed posters against Novell were manhandled by the organizers and police — typical of what is expected from them. Most of the snaps taken during the scuffle were forcefully deleted by the organizers, after seizing the protesters' mobile phones. Still they couldn't delete all. Here is another blow-by-blow account."

Communist software

[kandela]

Why am I not surprised that the makers of Groupwise are communist sympathisers.

non-story

[Anonymous Coward]

a single guy gets pushed around by a couple policeman, after ideologically motivated protest against novell. truly a sign of an out-of-control communist tyranny!

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FOSS Haters Anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello Bill, Is that you? Steve

Re:Boycott Novell?

[Hal_Porter]

The police are probably twitter sockpuppets.

Re:Boycott Boycott Novell

[siddesu]

Man, you say "fuck" a lot. You're Sean Connery's distant relative or something?

Re:Boycott Novell?

[twitter_sockpuppet]

Yeah, because everyone is a twitter sockpuppet.

Re:I can't wait for the morons to appear here

[DoofusOfDeath]

You know, the die-hard haters who come out of the woodwork every time Novell is mentioned, dredging up the years old Microsoft deal, which I predicted at the time would have zero impact on Linux and FOSS and have been vindicated in that prediction - except for the haters.

Yeah, but in all fairness, I think many of us forgot that you predicted that. If we'd remembered, we would definitely have kept our mouths shut.

I support this boycott!!

[monkeySauce]

I shall not purchase any Novell Protesters which were Manhandled in India!

We demand unspoiled protesters, dammit! (or at the very least, domestically manhandled ones-- it's better for our economy)

Re:so how much of a hero are you?

[stephanruby]

Google doesn't spider everything immediately; it can take some time. This means that there's a window of opportunity for those seeking to suppress information.

Not if you post your picture to a porn photo-blog, porn does not follow the normal space-time continuum. Any image uploaded -- flagged as porn is instantaneously transferred to millions of computers at the same time. This is one of reasons the next Internet (IPv6) is being tested with free porn. If the new Internet can handle porn, we'll know it can handle anything.

What's the point?

[Mantrid]

Isn't boycotting Novell like boycotting the horse and carriage? Does it serve a purpose?