[Fsf-india] Four more questions...

[Ranjit Babu]

On 13 Apr 2002, Khuzaima A. Lakdawala wrote:

> Ranjit, how many percent of people who wear clothes are themselves
> tailors? But they have the right to get their clothes altered by *any*
> tailor, don't they? It is this *elementary* right which is denied by
> proprietary software. You don't think having this right, or fighting
> to have it, is important?

  I think the right to modify code is absoultely essential- I think
  it is _the_ right to fight for. My opinion is that we should be
  fighting for the 'people' and not for the 'tailors'. Where does our
  focus lie right now? The vast majority of free software developers are
  looking at the right to modify code as something for the ultimate
  benefit of the dev community, not the free software communty as a whole-
  a community that includes people like V. Sasikumar who used GNU/Linux
  initially because it was easier on the pocket, but decided to stick on
  because they found the ideology important.

  + Ranjit