2009/1/6 haynes davis haynesdavis@gmail.com:
"continuing the great tradition of the party."
Was this sarcasm or did you really mean 'great'. Please realise what you are doing, its not what i am naming. You are proving it again.
haynes,
I was referring to past instances where party has branded people who spoke against it. CIA spy, Media Syndicate ... to list a few.
If all that you have been doing was as stated by you it would have been nice. But you do a little more as explained above.
When people who are passionate about what they are doing emotions can overflow. After all it is not business as usual. But will try to be more careful with words.
We have to correct any deviations of Kerala govt from its IT policy. But working together will be really tough (but not impossible) considering your blind anti cpim position which is doing more harm to the free software community.
Lets give it a try. Like a common minimum program, based on issues. The issue we are discissing here is the violation of state IT policy. Now we thought of writing a letter to the Kerala CM (since he is in charge of IT) bringing the IT policy violations to his notice. We can also give him examples of other governments which successfully implemented Free Software, like Munich, South Africa ... and the strategies they followed.
Now what else we can do? We are ready to listen to your ideas and work on things we both agree on. May be you can discuss this in party circles and bring it to the notice of party leaders.
In the community every one does not have to agree to every position, but when people have common positions they come together keeping the differences on other issues.
- Praveen