[Fsf-friends] Significance of Pongal

[Rakesh Ambati]

raramanrote:

We have enough free software now.  People don't have
> to wait until BhBhogi
> to throw out those dirty licenses, but it would be a
> good sysymbolisation
> and pave way for free software.

RaRamanTake a knee
   I thee proclaim you as the ofofficalcribe of
fsfsfriends,the hall of GNGNUism


;) 
ararky



--- RaRamanraj <raramanrajdmdvsvsnlet.in> wrote:
> AnAnnamalaiuGurusamirote:
> 
> >But then the WSWSF004 is to be held in MuMumbai Is
> he trtravellingown
> >to KaKarnatakar Tamil NaNaduuring his visit?  
> >
> Someone has already asked for the itinerary of RMS
> and I am sure ArArun
> would post it when ready.
> Please note that I only wrote about the spirit that
> prevails in India at 
> that time of the year.  For a long time, I thought
> that popongaln PoPongal
> was just what we eat after the rice is cooked with
> milk and jajaggeryn a 
> new pot until it overflows and offered to the sun
> along with sugarcane. 
>  Please read what Chantal BoBoulanger Tom DaDawberad
> to say about the 
> PoPongalin their book titled "In the Kingdom of
> NaNataraja
> 
> <quote>
> ... their belief impregnate every part of their
> lives and come from the 
> depths of their being and history.  PoPongalthe most
> popular Dravidian 
> ritual, is a "boiling-over", a symbol of life and
> fertility, and a way 
> to thank the divine energy which swallowed their
> ancestors for 
> mimillennia Here the pot contains the Energy, it
> means the over-flowing 
> plenitude rather than the void."
> </quote>
> 
> The day before PoPongalwe have BhBhogiwhen, by
> tradition, all unwanted 
> pots are broken up, and used clothing and others are
> burned up, to pave 
> way for the new pots and things.  Life is seen as a
> continuous renewal.
> 
> What better occasion could there be for doing away
> with proprietary 
> lilicencesthat could be given a disposal at the time
> of BhBhogi RMS in 
> this free sosofwareong has sung:
> 
> 
> <quote>
> [To the melody of SaSadioMoma
> 
>     Join us now and share the software;
>     You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.
>     /x2/
> 
>     Hoarders may get piles of money,
>     That is true, hackers, that is true.
>     But they cannot help their neighbors;
>     That's not good, hackers, that's not good.
> 
>     When we have enough free software
>     At our call, hackers, at our call,
>     We'll throw out those dirty licenses
>     Ever more, hackers, ever more.
> 
>     Join us now and share the software;
>     You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.
>     /x2/
> 
> </quote>
> 
> Visit: 
> hthttp/wwwwwnu.ororgusic/free-software-song.hthtml> 
> 
> We have enough free software now.  People don't have
> to wait until BhBhogi
> to throw out those dirty licenses, but it would be a
> good sysymbolisation
> and pave way for free software.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >BTW, where is FSFSFndia located (any office?).  
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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