[Fsf-friends] Comrades’ new-found love with IT

[Vikram Vincent]

2009/1/1 V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsf at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 13:04 +0530, sandeep sr wrote:
>
>> If opportunists start controlling the Free Software movement, it is
>> very likely that it is the ideals of FS that is going to be modified
>> more than any software under it. They can't be blamed for it, since it
>> is quite habitual for them to reverse their announced policies as part
>> of trying to catch up with the present, just as they did in the case
>> of World Bank and ADB loans(to name just two).
>
> I don't think the CPIM would do a somersault so soon. Remember, the
> party and the government got a lot of good publicity worldwide through
> the policy to support Free Software. The party did help in our fight
> against software patents too. And the fact that they are holding FS
> meetings shows that they are still interested in FS. Maybe they find
> that supporting the FS movement is good for them.
>
>> Madhyamam, a local daily today has a report by P.K Prakash that Mr.
>> Joseph Mathew, was removed from his post as IT Advisor to the Kerala
>> CM, as he resisted the efforts of a group from taking over FSF India.
>
> The official reason given is something very different and I hope that is
> the truth.

Why the hell is FSF-I bothered about the internal functioning of a
democratically elected State government?