On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.com wrote:
India is considered one of the biggest democracies in the world and the Free Software Movement is for the democratisation of technology and knowledge. However, the namesake of FSF in India ie., FSF-India, whose role is to lead the Free Software Movement has clearly defined itself as undemocratic.
Free Software Movement itself doesn't seem to be a democratic movement. It is a highly biased movement with a strong political statement on freedom of computing in particular and freedom of knowledge in general.
Free SOftware Movement is not a monolithic entity based on any democratic principles. Rather, it is a diverse group of organisations and indivuduals with widely varying philosophy but sharing some common thoughts and FSF India, FSF or any other related orgs does not represent or can claim to represent all the "Free Software Movement".
I think FSF India follows the similar structure as that of FSF of which Eben was a board member for a long time.
Since FSF itself is an undemocratic organization and RMS being its head a dictator, it'll be proper for a die hard freedom fighter like you to boycott all his programmes and instead conduct some awareness programmes to enlighten people about the damage he is doing to the cause of democracy and freedom.