[Fsf-friends] Free Software a Social Movement yet ???

Nidhin Sasi nidhin.sasi at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 11:59:03 IST 2009


*<I can't understand your first question - how can something be called a
movement even when its initiating the process - pls enlighten us with
your views.*

It was mentioned in Anivar's mail that "*Even the decision to adopt Free
Software in
IT at School was decided in an SCERT meeting (with the support of 85% of
teachers) much before  2006 elections*." . What efforts did the Free
Software Social Movement do to make this process in action ?

In your mail it has been mentioned

*"<In a boot-strapping process, there is a logical sequence of events.
<The final events come into existence only after the initial ones are
<complete. Here the initial part is schooling, which is fast maturing
<through Free Software initiatives. The dimension of this process may
<have reached a stage where it cannot be reversed or diluted anymore.
<It could well be a matter of time that rogue thinking is finally shown
<the exit door. Since this process is already in motion, it qualifies
<to be called a "Movement"."*
The initial part which you mentioned (schooling) has been an initiative by
the Govt as per my knowledge till now (from the Top now from the Bottom).
The above question I asked what Free Software Movement did to implement it.
? Only if that answer is given what you said above would makes sense to me
"*Here the initial part is schooling, which is fast maturing through Free
Software initiatives." , "Since this process is already in motion, it
qualifies to be called a "Movement". *
**
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:40 AM, ck raju <ck.thrissur at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Nidhin Sasi <nidhin.sasi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > through Free Software initiatives." Can you mention few such initiatives
> to
> > get a better picture ?
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> One can try out Free Software, even without knowing it in its
> entirety. And one can learn about its philosophy even without being
> taught formally about it - why should one discount the space available
> for horizontal discussions within student communities ?
>
> I can't understand your first question - how can something be called a
> movement even when its initiating the process - pls enlighten us with
> your views.
>
> CK Raju
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