[Fsf-india] DEBATE: Why Linux... why GNU/Linux

[Raju Mathur]

>>>>> "Ragoo" == Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@vsnl.com> writes:

    Ragoo> Frederick Noronha posts :
    >> See the views of Atul Chtinis and RMS below...

    Ragoo> You cannot compare a rotten lemon with a crunchy apple !
    Ragoo> Atul Chitnis is an ordinary hack like anyone of us whereas
    Ragoo> RMS is a charismatic hacker figure-head who has sacrificed
    Ragoo> his life to the betterment of Society.

    Ragoo> Atul Chitnis: A person who has no original work to his
    Ragoo> credit other than bringing us, first RedHat Linux and later
    Ragoo> PCQuest Linux via a magazine called PC Quest.  (This was
    Ragoo> brought out at a time when our Net connectivity was very
    Ragoo> poor.)  He has made no great sacrifice by this other than
    Ragoo> promoting his consultancy firm called Exocore Consulting,
    Ragoo> thereby enriching himself.  He alongwith PC Quest have
    Ragoo> shown us that there is a good business model in selling
    Ragoo> GNU/Linux CDS and that one can make good money by providing
    Ragoo> services using *free* software.

    Ragoo> RMS: A person with an original idea in that he started the
    Ragoo> GNU Project at a time when everyone was beholden to the
    Ragoo> *proprietary* model of software development.  It was RMS
    Ragoo> who all these years has been telling us the values of
    Ragoo> ethical computing and of a software sharing
    Ragoo> community. Again you see RMS pleading that scientific
    Ragoo> development can move forward only if we share and re-use
    Ragoo> resources, build upon the shoulders of the giants before
    Ragoo> us.  Above all it was RMS who single-handedly drafted the
    Ragoo> GNU GPL for the protection of the software
    Ragoo> developer/consumer.  RMS has inducted a value based
    Ragoo> approach to the development and deployment of software.

Ragoo,

I always find your well-thought-out arguments for the GPL and the GNU
project both fascinating and enlightening.  Please don't ever stop
giving us the benefit of your vast experience by desisting from
writing these well-reasoned messages to FSF-INDIA and the
Linux-India-General mailing lists -- we'd be completely at a loss
unless you showed us the One True Path and kept providing us with
lists of people to calumnify and crucify.

I hope and pray that the free software world recognises your immense
contribution to the cause of promotion of free software, GNU and the
GPL in a tangible fashion.

Regards,

-- Raju
-- 
Raju Mathur          raju@kandalaya.org           http://kandalaya.org/
                     It is the mind that moves