27 Oct
2002
27 Oct
'02
5:35 a.m.
I presented a paper on the social fairness of software at the just concluded
34th Regional Science Conference at Thrissur. The core theme is attached
herewith for remarks and suggestions from members of this list.
I deliberately avoided the terminology of 'Free Software' as the audience had
been economists and planning experts.
CK Raju
27 Oct
27 Oct
8:52 a.m.
I presented a paper on the social fairness of software
at the just
concluded 34th Regional Science Conference at Thrissur. The core theme
is attached herewith for remarks and suggestions from members of this
list.
I deliberately avoided the terminology of 'Free Software' as the
audience had been economists and planning experts.
Could you please explain why you are not using the term 'Free Software'
here? Then where you are going to use 'Free Software" terminology?
Regards,
Baiju M
11:08 a.m.
Could you please explain why you are not using the
term 'Free Software'
here? Then where you are going to use 'Free Software" terminology?
To a economist, I would rather try and expose limitations of closed source
technologies, so that he can agree that a debate would be healthy.
You will agree here that forcing a debate is the first step, especially when
a decision has already been taken. Moreover I didn't want to confuse the
audience with 'free software' and 'freeware/shareware' and then get into
clarifying on how something can be free, so on and so forth.
In the limited time, I felt it prudent to attack closed source technologies
than propagate freedom. That can be done only as a second step. If he takes a
capitalist view, then I will have to again tell him, that capitalist markets
have adopted 'free software' ....
The issues are endless and has every opportunity to divert their attention.
Elaborated, as I thought my first reply was too short.
CK Raju
28 Oct
28 Oct
5:22 a.m.
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:05:39 +0530, CK Raju <ckraju(a)zyberway.com> wrote:
I presented a paper on the social fairness of software
at the just
concluded 34th Regional Science Conference at Thrissur. The core
theme is attached herewith for remarks and suggestions from members
of this list.
Huge drain of economic resources for maintaining efforts
That is not a good argument for countering proprietary software at
all. The archives of this list are full of comments pointing out why
this argument is flawed.
I deliberately avoided the terminology of 'Free
Software' as the
audience had been economists and planning experts.
To such an audience we can say at the outset "Please don't consider
free software for its economic benefits but for its social benefits."
Using the term swatantra software would also help.
Regards,
--
Khuzaima
29 Oct
29 Oct
3:15 a.m.
That is not a good argument for countering proprietary
software at
Thanks for suggestions. I need more of them to strengthen the theme. The
entire paper presented is at http://business.vsnl.com/kalapila/paper1.html
CK Raju
30 Oct
30 Oct
4:36 p.m.
CK Raju wrote:
I deliberately avoided the terminology of 'Free
Software' as the
audience had been economists and planning experts.
Raju, you have a point there. I feel that they understand the term
'swatantrayam' better, and a few days back, I saw a reference to the
term 'free as in enterprise' in one of those news letters from
sourceforge.net.
I think that you can use the concept of 'swatantrayam' better.
Regards,
Mahesh T Pai.
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