Fwd: [ATPS] Re: Fwd: [Fsf-friends] BSNL should find a place in "Hall of Shame"

[CK Raju, Thrissur]

On 3/12/07, cvr3 at river-valley.org <cvr3 at river-valley.org> wrote:

> I feel this is very relevant to this thread, I am now coming
> to the contradictions on client side computing.


== The thread is being split into  more finer threads ==

CVR,
1. If that is the worry then there could be FreeDOS, ReactOS etc which can
give M$ a good scare.

2. A fact that web applications are on the rise doesn't decrease the
importance of servers - they only increase, because information is easy to
control if its concentrated - it becomes a nice hot target - which only
increase our demand for such public services to be on Free Software, because
citizens feel more secure if public information is not only detached from a
private player but also if they themselves are its masters.

3. Lastly, on education content. Is education only about content ? It can
rarely be so. Education involves critical thinking - at its core - one, that
can make any hardened project very very brittle - which in turn makes any
idea of a finished project, totally naive. Since proprietary world usually
takes everything given, for granted - as a habit - their views on education
also gets distorted - finished projects are a norm here, not exceptions.
This is a deep rooted cognitive disorder, a fallout of proprietariness. Free
Software community almost always thinks, questions, discusses and differs -
and lets their difference known - as a fork, or as a modification.

Enough of this thread. Bye.
CK Raju