On Thursday 01 Jan 2009, sandeep sr wrote:
[snip] If opportunists start controlling the Free Software movement [snip]
Maybe I'm being totally stupid here, but would someone explain what advantage control of FSF India or the free software movement here would bring to any political party?
We don't control any voters (heck, we find it hard enough to agree on anything within the community itself!)
We don't own large means of producing capital.
We don't listen to diktats or whips from anyone.
We are notoriously difficult to herd.
We all have our independent views of local, national and international politics and events.
Our objectives are rarely the same as the objectives of any party. Even when the objectives converge, the reasons for and often the means of achieving those objectives are widely divergent.
If I were a political party I'd keep my politics as far as possible from this community, lest my existing followers also be tainted by the spirit of independence and iconoclasm that the community evinces :)
Regards,
-- Raju