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
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
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
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:05:39 +0530, CK Raju ckraju@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,
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
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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