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

Praveen A pravi.a at gmail.com
Sat Jan 3 02:50:06 IST 2009


2009/1/2 Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram at gmail.com>:
> The above point projects an apolitical approach and is part of the
> politics which says that "people should not take part in politics",
> "politics is dirty", etc... which is anti-democratic politics.
> If one were to go through the Free Software principles and Eben
> Moglen's treatise on "The struggle for freedom of thought" and
> comprehend their meaning then one would see the political shallowness
> expressed in the above point.
>
> Point: The free software movement is a political movement.
>

I did not say politics is good or bad here. All I said was the
possibility of discussing things which left care about. You can debate
it whether it is good or bad. That was not what I was doing.

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