<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Arun M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arun@gnu.org.in">arun@gnu.org.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
FSF is not Free Software Movement. FSF and its sister organisations tries to<br>
give leadership to free software movement.</blockquote><div> </div><div>Unfortunately, thats not what the community seems to understand these
days. The leadership is expected to step ahead to lead the movement,
but not to stand behind the people working for the movement and work as
a body that says 'this-is-so-wrong-this-is-no-<div>right' and feel that the 'direction' is given.</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Also note that being a sister organisations of FSF, FSF India has to<br>
follow policies of FSF.</blockquote><div><br>I spent some time finding these, but couldn't see anything. [probably i was expecting transparency ...oops] <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Let there be 1000 more organisations to promote free software.<br>
We just needs to be watchful of whether these organisations are<br>
helping community or sabotaging it from with in.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I don't know if more organizations promoting free software would
sabotage the community or not, but I feel that the kind of views the
FAQs seem to put forth (which I must now understand is going to be
different from what the board members/employees think/say) is going to
sabotage the Free software community in India. <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Words from Gitanjali coming back to mind.<br>
<br>
"Where knowledge is free<br>
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls"<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Thats what he said then, and now today we say "Let there be 1000 more organisations ...."??<br>I know. This might not be double-speak as I used to think earlier.<br>
<br>Democracy cannot be achieved without democratic procedures. A
movement like Free Software movement should be based on mass support
and mass involvement. One can't deny that because, well, thats how its
been working and thats how it will work too. What motivated activists
like me to join and work for free software is the very fact that its a
mass based movement. The charkha (which coincidentally is part of FSF-I
logo) signifies the masses that used it to participate in the Freedom
movement in India, which was again a mass movement.<br>
<br>"FSF" might not be "FSM" literally, but I hope FSF is not
dissociating itself from FSM. Thats not leadership, thats gonna break
our hearts.<br><br>-- Sarath M S<br>