<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM, sandeep sr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sandeep.sr78@gmail.com">sandeep.sr78@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Vikram Vincent <<a href="mailto:vincentvikram@gmail.com">vincentvikram@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div>Free Software Movement itself doesn't seem to be a democratic<br>
movement. It is a highly biased movement with a strong political<br>
statement on freedom of computing in particular and freedom of<br>
knowledge in general.<br>
<br>
Free SOftware Movement is not a monolithic entity based on any<br>
democratic principles. Rather, it is a diverse group of organisations<br>
and indivuduals with widely varying philosophy but sharing some common<br>
thoughts and FSF India, FSF or any other related orgs does not<br>
represent or can claim to represent all the "Free Software Movement".<br>
<br>
I think FSF India follows the similar structure as that of FSF of<br>
which Eben was a board member for a long time.<br>
<br>
Since FSF itself is an undemocratic organization and RMS being its<br>
head a dictator, it'll be proper for a die hard freedom fighter like<br>
you to boycott all his programmes and instead conduct some awareness<br>
programmes to enlighten people about the damage he is doing to the<br>
cause of democracy and freedom.<br>
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</font></blockquote><div>Quoting from RMS Essays : <br>Chapter 20 ; Page 176 ; para 3 <br>Regarding calling GNU system as linux system <br> <br> They still wouldn't have to agree with us. But at least they'd see a reason to take<br>
it seriously, to think about it carefully, to give it a chance. They would see how it<br>relates to their lives. If they realized, "I'm using the GNU system. Here's the GNU<br>philosophy. This philosophy is why this system that I like very much exists," they'd<br>
at least consider it with a much more open mind. <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51); background-color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It doesn't mean that everybody</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51); background-color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51); background-color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">will agree. People think different things. That's okay–people should make up their</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51); background-color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51); background-color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">own minds. But I want this philosophy to get the benefit of the credit for the results</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51); background-color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51); background-color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">it has achieved.</span><br style="background-color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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--<br>
Sandeep<br>
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