On 10/24/07, Vihan Pandey vihanpandey@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO - continuing to live dedicated to a righteous cause and persistently pursuing it no matter what the obstacles are, tirelessly without a vested interested counts as giving one's life and blood.
it doesnt - perhaps you are too young to have gone through periods in our nation's history where people *really* shed *real* blood, were tortured, starved and killed for freedom. If you had, you wouldnt spout tripe like this.
'Tis true that i am ``too young to have gone through periods in our nation's history where people *really* shed *real* blood, were tortured, starved and killed for freedom".
But perhaps you have forgotten that some people actually bother to read History books and get angry to see mankind repeating its mistakes and misdeeds time after time. Tyranny is tyranny let it be the KGB putting restrictions on who could use the photocopier and for what or governments supporting DRM to suppress what information can be shared and what can't.
If we simply choose to ignore what's happening in world like DRM, Software Patents, and Trusted(sic) Computing then things will just get worse. If we don't care and don't bother to do a thing about it - its a carte blanch invitation for corporates and governments to go ahead and do what they want regardless of its merit.
K.G, i'm not belittling the sacrifices of our nations freedom fighters. i'm just saying its wrong for us to ignore those who are fighting for freedom and liberty in software and if we have an oppertunity to say something about it - we should.
Regards,
I had a message from Alpesh (who also went to Chennai with Krishakant) all this is due to the messup with the media. we have both audio and video records of what Krishnakant spoke where the freedom aspect was not only mentioned but underlined. However, the media chose to neglect those issues.
Btw, the news also says a person from the city (meaning Chennai), but nowhere did they mention that he went there representing gnowledge.org lab of Homi Bhabha Centre, TIFR.
We need to do something to educate the media too. they have no awareness as why we are doing what we are doing.
I have been doing the following with the media person: as soon as I start speaking, I tell them, please record. if they do not have a recorder or if they are doing the interview over phone, I request them to send me the story before it goes to the press. else I tell them clearly, you have not permision to mention my name in the paper. Another strategy I use is to ask them to send the questions over email and send them my replies in black and white.
This strategy works quite well, though I must admit the media people do not oblige all the time.
As soon as we get the video's and audio files in my hand we will upload them.
Nagarjuna