[Fsf-friends] Sign an Open Letter to the CJI in Support of Prashant Bhushan
Juan Carlos Gentile Fagundez
jucar at hipatia.net
Tue Sep 28 15:34:14 IST 2010
On Tuesday 28 September 2010, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
|On Tuesday 28 Sep 2010, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:
|> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 09:58 +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
|> > *Sigh* I'm sure there must be some connection between this and free
|> > software in India, but I'm stupid and fail to see it. Would
|> > someone be kind enough to enlighten me?
|>
|> As I understand it, Free Software is about freedom. If we don't have
|> the freedom to say what we would like to, and point out cases of
|> corruption, then there is no meaning in talking about the freedom of
|> software. I think our basic freedoms are much more fundamental than
|> the freedom of software. And we need all possible people to fight to
|> protect them. So we make use of all available fora to request people
|> to contribute their mite. Those who are willing to can contribute to
|> the efforts. Those who don't want to, for whatever reason, ignore
|> it.
|
|Let me explain it in words of two syllables:
|
|There is a concept called "being on topic"; there is also a concept
|called "topic for a forum". This forum is about free software and
|directly related issues in India. Being on topic in this forum implies
|that posts are to be somehow related to software freedom in India.
|
|Corruption of the judiciary, the failure of the CWG, the difference
|between the Congress and the BJP, the bust measurements of Bollywood
|actresses -- all these, however interesting to some participants, are
|NOT related to software freedom in India.
|
|If you claim that they are, then I shall henceforth write about whatever
|comes into my mind and use this list as a personal blog until the admins
|decide to either (a) ban me from the list, or (b) take a clear stance on
|on-topic and off-topic postings.
|
thinking like this you are not a freedom fighter.
waiting for admins to ban you? what is this ? who can ban who?
is this freedom ?
what are freedom topics ?
is freedom in software a different issue ?
best
try to be free :)
juan
[ot] linux-dheli ? do you have a group for the kernel stuff or is a gnu-linux
group?
|I joined this list to discuss software freedom in India and directly
|related issues. Now it seems to be a public forum for airing pet peeves
|and drumming up support for causes and topics completely unrelated to
|software, software freedom, personal privacy or technology in India.
|Fair enough, I have pet peeves and causes that need support too, and
|since this is the place to bring them up, I shall do so without any fear
|from now on.
|
|End of this discussion from my side.
|
|-- Raj
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