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Neeraj Semwal writes:
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> First of all I apologize to all those brevity seekers who find it to be the
> soul of wit, perhaps I could've eaten alphabets and crapped out a better
> essay but the real trouble with reality is that there's no background music,
> may be thats why it appeared to be an unnecessary 'long political rant' to
> some. And calling politics different from FOSS/Linux is prejudice because if
> we say that Govt. is responsible for ensuring our freedom then it is the
> resposiblity of the very same Govt. to ensure our Digital Freedom and
> FOSS/Linux is all about digital freedom. FOSS and GNU/Linux evolved out of
> the political viewpoints of Richard Stallman, thats why RMS is more known
> for his philosophical(political) ideas and seen more like a political leader
> of FOSS revolution. Earlier some of the members of this mailing list even
> called RMS as the Mahatma Gandhi of FOSS movement, if you call RMS as Gandhi
> then you must also agree to call GNU/Linux a great political achievement in
> establishing digital freedom.
> I ask you all that we so cautious and much concerned about the freedom
> offered by the softwares we use but when it comes to discuss about the laws
> that govern 'that freedom' we are least interested (even to the extent that
> we call it off-the-list topic), why have such double standards?
I think we need zero restriction on freedom of speech and more respect for
preamble of the constitution, both of which require tolerance from the people,
and other things will follow.
Maybe you should think about how to distribute 1984, and other Orwellian
thoughts in their naked uncensored form, like Gideon's Bible.
> And as far as the idea about 'Open Democracy' is concerned its still in
> premature stage and it needs more refinements. I chose to discuss it on this
> mailing list because of the two reasons:
> firstly, the mode of the development will be similar to the development mode
> of any open source software.
> secondly, FOSS/Linux and politics are the most related topics. If they're
> not then this mailing list would be the last place to post such ideas.
> we cant hide our face behind the statements "we're the techies and politics
> is not our cup of tea" or "consult vakeel and judges but not the people from
> FOSS/Linux arena", though we all are techies but we can utilize our
> technical skills to develop the platform to share the ideas on 'Open
> Democracy'. (just like facebook is a platform developed by techies for
> common people to share ideas)
FYI, Facebook is not a platform developed by techies for common people to
share ideas, it is just another man's dream of becoming a Big Brother, by
employing techies, like Google.
And the worst part, Governments uses that to communicate with people for which
they're not even sure is happening behind the scenes. We need more public
domain work by Govt., and no copyright by Govt. We need institutions like
C-DAC to be shut down for acting as a Govt. funded for-profit organization.
We need sources for all of the work (including websites operated by govt.) in
standard format (read as: !OOXML or encumbered by patents) in a freely
downloadable fashion, and zero security by obscurity.
And for that we don't need another constitution, just n amendments will do,
but there are very less chances for that happening now unless everyone goes in
M-x paranoid-mode.
What I can see from your essay is that you're trying to make a career in
creative writing and wanted to make your résumé look better:
* Lead team of n people and drafted a constitution, under CC-by-SA, not
*public domain*, available from Lulu.com :)
I wish I could write something like that on my blog :( .
> Today I slashed out my ideas because good intentions die unless utilized.
> And I did it so that all the fellow Open Source Zealots can critically
> analyze it, hence more ideas and criticism are welcomed to improve it.
Happy troll-ing.
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Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0
freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/
“When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her
own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood
What men live by.” (Leo Tolstoy, "What Men Live By", 1881)
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