You mean to say that CPIM's support for Free Software depends on what I say? I think you are ascribing too much authority to me. As far as I understand, the party supports the FS movement for ideological reasons. Because it thinks that FS is good for the society and the country. And it should be that way too. FS does not belong to me (or anyone else, for that matter.) It belongs to the entire humanity. It is promoted by tens of thousands of people, people like you, people like Praveen, Ashik and so many others. I try to contribute what I can. Why should a large party like CPIM become against FS simply because of what I wrote in a list? I don't think they are. Maybe some of them may feel anger towards me. I can understand that. But why should they oppose FS for that? It is like saying that the CPIM is affected because of something you wrote in some mailing list. Nothing like that can happen, or has happened. Remember, nothing has happened to the party even though stalwarts like K.R. Gowri have left it. Similarly, nothing is going to happen to the FS movement. So don't worry about such things. Let us just work towards popularising Free Software.
Happy hacking Sasi
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:29 +0530, haynes davis wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:24 PM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com wrote:
Good reasons for 'a negative impact on the growth of freedom in India'. Those words are pure disregard for the support cpim has given to free software community. Creating suspicions of these kind will never do good to free software movement.
From FSF-I board staement http://www.gnu.org.in/board-statement-on-recent-issues-1