On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:34 PM, siddhu soso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sid.fuser@gmail.com">sid.fuser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
"Pure students" so... somebody affiliated to some organizations.. make them impure and they should neither </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
use free software nor propagate free software.. great .. im getting meet so many fundamentalists here.. </blockquote>You can continue to dream on these lines and draw personal conclusions. If you pen them here, with details, most of us will get to know you much better.<br>
<br>To me, the fundamentals of Free Software do not give scope for much deviation - in that respect there's a great amount of dignity associated with this term, when used in this connection. Mixing up Free Software with convenient-market fundamentals and taking pride in that is something that scares me. Any contributor would protest when a market player adopts the embrace, extend and extinguish style of operation, on such contributions which are made for a larger cause. <br>
<br>When an organisation whose responsibility covers the entire population of Kerala conducts a National programme - its only reasonable for commoners to expect that there would be some tangible changes in the way public information is processed. Presently it is done with the connivance and knowledge of the organisation by agencies like IKM incubated by non-free software corporates. Whether this has happened is something you should be pondering on. Our status is the same. My information is still being processed by non-free software agents at my local government institution. What does then, this boasting of 1500+ mean ? Whom are we trying to convince ?<br>
<br>Eighth, ninth and tenth standards in govt schools may itself cross 20 lakh students - who learn Free Software on a daily basis. If 1500+ is national, what should we name this phenomenon ? To me, the action of those silent teachers is more appealing. If the lsgi and industries department woke up to this reality, then the future of those community is safe - but is it the case ? Lsgi department continues with its anti-policy stand and agencies like IKM have only become more non-free fundamentalists. People like you should have the courage to walk up to them and discuss issues. Industries minister is on record saying he wants to prove that party is not-SEZ, is not-anti-capitalist etc and is out with a very "effective and purposeful mission". All these convey a lot to us.<br>
<br>CK Raju<br></div><br>