On Thursday 16 April 2009, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Let this forum be for what it was created - a user community which will help with problems and technical matters that we all face and for sharing of knowledge.
If the purpose of this forum is purely technical, then a post like this does not make sense. However, if the purpose of this mailing list also includes making FOSS widely prevalent in society, then this post is indeed appropriate.
Actually if it wasnt for the closed software industry dirty poltics, this list would have remained reasonably technical. As it stands, most of the issues one faces is compatibility with closed and or broken non standards. On the rare occasion one has to dig in with some linux + hardware specific problem.
Politics and Political parties are not of any use to us.
They are our representatives and we have to make them work for us, the people of India. We are lucky that we live in a democracy that has many checks and balances and it is our responsibility to be engaged in the democratic process.
Agreed. Much as we despise the dirty politics, turning your back will only get a knife in you.