Hello, Having chanced upon Benjamin "Mako" Hill's blog, I'm using his appeal to appeal to you all to join as Associate Members of FSF-Indiahttp://fsf.org.in/ . Associate Fellowship of FSF India http://www.gnu.org.in/fellowship "Now is the time to join and give to Free Software Foundation. 2008 is going to be extraordinarily important year for free software.
Eben Moglen likes to quote Gandhi's "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" progression when describing the free software movement. As I pointed outhttp://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20070626-00when I joined the FSF board, we're beginning to see powerful interests fighting free software. It's going to increase in the next few years. Things will probably get a lot uglier for free software before they get better. We can win but things are far from settled. The FSF is the front-line organization in this fight and we need a robust and proactive foundation, and an active and involved membership, if we're going to win.
Here are the issues that I'm going to pushing the FSF to pursue in the next year."
Read more at Mako's blog http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20071214-00