[Fsf-friends] Re: [bytesforall_readers] Microsoft to shareWindows code withIndia

[satish jha]

many thanks.
i am not just the cmd of jm&co. i am also a former editor of perhaps the
most soialist of all magazines in india- dinamaan that was published at a
time by the times of india, also a voluntary activist and a student of
philosophy or science as well and i take as much interest in my social role
as in matters private and revenue generating.

the issue is not just about property rights. the issue is about progress
itself. i am not responding to just one feature of the debate. it impacts
all. if a hypothesis cannot stand the weakest test, how strong would it be?

greetings for the festive season and have a great new year.
________________________________
satish jha
cmd, james martin & co
www.jmcin.com
president, digital partners india
n-103, panchsheel park,
new delhi - 110 017
v: 649 9384/5; 649 4384/5
f:  649 4380

----- Original Message -----
From: "V. Sasi Kumar" <vsasi@vsnl.com>
To: <fsf-friends@gnu.org.in>
Cc: "satish jha" <sjha@vsnl.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: [bytesforall_readers] Microsoft to
shareWindows code withIndia


> Dear Satish,
>
> As CMD of James Martin & Co I may be able to understand your inclination
> towards the present regime of "intellectual property" and "copyrights".
> But I cannot believe that you are naive enough not to be able to
> distinguish between alphabets and property. I try to explain briefly, in
> case I am wrong.
>
> Alphabets are nobody's property. Nobody needs to be paid royalty to use
> it. Anybody can learn alphabets if they want to. Anybody can teach
> alphabets to anybody else, and nobody can question his(her) rights to do
> so. Can you claim the same about land? Can you claim the same about any
> copyrighted material or patent (knowledge)?
>
> Regards
> V. Sasi Kumar
>
> On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 00:21, satish jha wrote:
> > sunil:
> >
> > before we learnt to use alphabets, there were no illiterates either.
> > so let us not have alphabest??
> > ________________________________
> > satish jha
> > cmd, james martin & co
> > www.jmcin.com
> > president, digital partners india
> > n-103, panchsheel park,
> > new delhi - 110 017
> > v: 649 9384/5; 649 4384/5
> > f:  649 4380
> >
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: sunil
> >   To: bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com
> >   Cc: linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net ; fsf-friends@gnu.org.in
> >   Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 5:21 PM
> >   Subject: Re: [bytesforall_readers] Microsoft to share Windows code
withIndia
> >
> >
> >   Dear Satish,
> >
> >   Free Software is not Open Source Software. Access to code is not the
main
> >   issue. Free License implies Ownership and Control. It is not the
recipe of
> >   coke but the ownership of coke.
> >
> >   Copyrighting is the root cause of the digital divide... here is an
> >   oversimplification so that you can understand..
> >   ------------------------------------------------------
> >   Before the concept of Private Property:
> >     No Economic Divide
> >   After the concept of Private Property:
> >     Land Owners
> >     Landless
> >     Economic Divide
> >   ------------------------------------------------------
> >   Before the concept of Intellectual Property:-
> >     No Digital Divide
> >   After the concept of Intellectual Property:
> >     Those with Knowledge
> >     Those without Knowledge
> >     Digital Divide
> >   ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >   You will notice this trend in all forms of privatization:- water,
phrases,
> >   gestures, ideas, products etc.
> >
> >   General Public License transfers ownership of digital assets to the
poor.
> >   To use a Marxist phrase - the means of production in the knowledge
economy
> >   will be transfered to the poor. This is a 'critical' component of any
> >   digital divide intervention.Without this type of systemic intervention
all
> >   other ICT is merely technology band-aid.
> >
> >   Please see my IIM-B presentation for more details:
> >   http://www.mahiti.org/events/Event.2002-12-16.3025/view
> >
> >   Thanks,
> >
> >   Sunil
> >   Thanks,
> >
> >   Sunil
> >
> >   =====
> >   Sunil Abraham [MAHITI]
> >   314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur
> >   Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka, INDIA
> >   Ph/Fax: +91 80 5352003. Pager: 9624 279519
> >   sunil@mahiti.org http://www.mahiti.org
> >
> >
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