On Tuesday 28 September 2010, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: |On Tuesday 28 Sep 2010, V. Sasi Kumar wrote: |> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 09:58 +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: |> > *Sigh* I'm sure there must be some connection between this and free |> > software in India, but I'm stupid and fail to see it. Would |> > someone be kind enough to enlighten me? |> |> As I understand it, Free Software is about freedom. If we don't have |> the freedom to say what we would like to, and point out cases of |> corruption, then there is no meaning in talking about the freedom of |> software. I think our basic freedoms are much more fundamental than |> the freedom of software. And we need all possible people to fight to |> protect them. So we make use of all available fora to request people |> to contribute their mite. Those who are willing to can contribute to |> the efforts. Those who don't want to, for whatever reason, ignore |> it. | |Let me explain it in words of two syllables: | |There is a concept called "being on topic"; there is also a concept |called "topic for a forum". This forum is about free software and |directly related issues in India. Being on topic in this forum implies |that posts are to be somehow related to software freedom in India. | |Corruption of the judiciary, the failure of the CWG, the difference |between the Congress and the BJP, the bust measurements of Bollywood |actresses -- all these, however interesting to some participants, are |NOT related to software freedom in India. | |If you claim that they are, then I shall henceforth write about whatever |comes into my mind and use this list as a personal blog until the admins |decide to either (a) ban me from the list, or (b) take a clear stance on |on-topic and off-topic postings. |
thinking like this you are not a freedom fighter. waiting for admins to ban you? what is this ? who can ban who? is this freedom ? what are freedom topics ? is freedom in software a different issue ?
best
try to be free :)
juan
[ot] linux-dheli ? do you have a group for the kernel stuff or is a gnu-linux group?
|I joined this list to discuss software freedom in India and directly |related issues. Now it seems to be a public forum for airing pet peeves |and drumming up support for causes and topics completely unrelated to |software, software freedom, personal privacy or technology in India. |Fair enough, I have pet peeves and causes that need support too, and |since this is the place to bring them up, I shall do so without any fear |from now on. | |End of this discussion from my side. | |-- Raj