James Mathew writes "This is an interesting story from Kerala, where the ruling Communist Party(CPIM) organized a National Conference in its efforts to hijack the Free Software Movement, which has enviable roots in the state. When people with no respect for freedom go about to conduct a conference, they couldn't have imagined of a better sponsor than Novell. 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 their mobile phones. Still they couldn't delete all. You can find the blow by blow account at http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2008/11/boycott-novell-protesters-man-handled.html and http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/16/novell-sponsorship-critique/" Link to Original Source
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