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Update on Playfair

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gonna-get-messier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A few weeks back, Slashdot reported that Apple had sent a cease and desist letter to Sarovar.org, the Indian site hosting the Playfair project. This is the first incident in India where a corporation has used legal means to shut down a Free Software project. Some of the prominent members of the Open Source/Free Software community in India have issued an update on this situation. There is also an interesting post in the FSF-India mailing lists."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GNAA

  2. RESPONSE NEEDED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Elmer Krause was killed :(

    Do your part:
    United States Marine Corps
    United States Army
    United States Navy
    United States Air Force

  3. where by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice Discussion = trollfest

  4. Train blast victims glad not to be bombed by US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some local people thought the explosion signified the United States had begun the pre- emptive nuclear attack on North Korea that the Government of reclusive leader Kim Jong-il has feared since US President George Bush's "axis of evil" speech two years ago.

    Kaika Rajahuhta, a Finnish worker with the International Red Cross, said one woman told her: "I thought the Americans had finally dropped the bomb."