Re: [OSS] Re: Fwd: Second OSS Conference - Follow Up

Huh, here is what happened with UniKey:
1) Two companies in Vietnam took the sources from the website, changed name
and logo and "sold" the SW for good money to state offices.
OK, something like that should not happen anymore, if we make good PR work....
2) Not long ago, somebody of the VietKey group (i.e. the very group which
tries to get famous now as "Linux Company", accused Long, the author of
UniKey of hurting Vietnamese SW Developers by releasing his Keyboard driver
under the GPL.

This is exactly the sort of problem that happens when people think of
the system as "Linux", as an "alternative" system with some practical
advantages, whose goal is mere success (popularity).

The way to stop this is to spread the idea of GNU--the idea of free software:
that the goal is freedom to cooperate, and the GNU/Linux system is important
only as a way we can reject non-free software from our lives.

To facilitate co-ordination regarding the introduction of OSS SW in Vietnam

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