Hello,
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Pranesh Srinivasan <spranesh at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>>I do not wish to flare your temper, or start a flame war, I agree but feel
>>>>that there are too many "given wisdom" statements in
what Sarad AV has said to let them pass. My apologies for fanning the
flames. ;-)
>>>If you want to skip the rest of this mail then the pithy summary is:
Monopolies are born out of perceived _convenience_
or
>>>> _Convenience_ is the always wrong reason to accept less choice
(Or less security).
>>>>I assure you that the rest of this mail is not
(only) ideology _and_ has something to do with GNU and Linux!
I already agreed to that. Allow me to quote what i said earlier
> As long as we don't have the numbers, what we say
> is only a ideology. there isn't much we can do about it.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
you wrote:
>>>> That is certainly not true. Since there is a mukta O/S and a mukta
>>>> network to connect to we do have a choice and we can exercise it.
I wrote:
> Yes, thats the first step. To truly exercise freedom, we require others to
> be free because we live in a society of dependence. Hence we still need the
> numbers.
Which part was too wise to follow :-)
Regards,
Sarad.
P.s. i apologize if this mail messes up with line formatting. i am unable to
fix it.
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