Re: [Fsf-friends] Comrades’ new-found love with IT

2009/1/2 Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.com:

The above point projects an apolitical approach and is part of the politics which says that "people should not take part in politics", "politics is dirty", etc... which is anti-democratic politics. If one were to go through the Free Software principles and Eben Moglen's treatise on "The struggle for freedom of thought" and comprehend their meaning then one would see the political shallowness expressed in the above point.

Point: The free software movement is a political movement.

I did not say politics is good or bad here. All I said was the possibility of discussing things which left care about. You can debate it whether it is good or bad. That was not what I was doing.