Just Noticed a bug in CPIM Manifesto
> Following are some of the highlights of the policy - > - Promoting Free Software and other such new technologies, which are free from > monopoly ownership through copyrights or patents; The problem on above statement is Free Software is based on Copyright. Anivar On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/19 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS <[email protected]>: >> "the Congress is left as the only major >> national party which is yet to formally take a position on FOSS." >> This is the reason for the doubt as the election here is >> between congress and CPM >> Clear that it is political. Otherwise which is the proof that congress is >> not using it any where? > > I posted a Modified Version of Vinay's Mail. > > We expect Congress will also Support Free Software and Open Standards > and all parties will reach at a common position on supporting Free > Software > > A lot of positive steps are happened during UPA regime > > 1. Knowledge Commission report endorsing Free Software ( Now they have > to take t to Policy) > 2. 11th 5 year plan says FOSS is the only way to move forward to > increase Computer penetration in india from 1% of population to 5 % > percent > 3. National Draft Policy on Open standards ( They have to Mandate it now) > > Negative : Draft Patent manual that tried to introduce software > patents that will have a serious negative impact on small and medium > software enterprenures in the country > > So it is the time for them to decide on taking credits of these > positive moves happened on UPA regime by including the followups on > their Manifesto. > > > A short Note(personal) on CPIM & BJPs Policies (lets talk negatives) > we can congress also in this list after their manifesto > > BJP's IT Vision Document seems to be from a techno-nationalist > perspective. It envision citizen as a member of network society ( > obliviously they will miss a lot of citizens who does not have the > access ) which is under state surveillance. Access Question is not > properly pointed in BJP's policy. it is more about access quality & > infrastructure (ie middle class and upper class ) > > Also it omits Important issues of Privacy of citizen in digital > spaces. It is talks about National ID cards (Biomentric? ) Cyber > Warfare etc. It Also keeps silence about important issues like > patents. But their adoption is very positive . It opens a dialogue > space with BJP on Free Software Values. Now they seems to be only > concerned about Digital security of the state & not about the citizen > . Also there are critiques about practicality of the policy based on > cost estimates > > > CPIM's manifesto is little more progressive for me compared to BJPs IT > vision. It focuses extending the idea of Free software to other > sectors like agriculture & Drug Discovery. But is silent about Open > standards. The strong point against new Public Funded R & D Bill > (which allows state patenting of Public Funded Research ) and against > US & EU influences in Indian patent Office i also good. > > So let hope All Political parties will have a healthy competition on > Supporting Free Software. we can reach at a conclusion based on all > Manifestos > > Anivar > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
