dear sandip,
thanks very much for your response to the discussion. love your sign-off
line, and count me in as an 'ignuramus' which i presume is much worse than an
ignoramus.
:-)
anyways, you wrote
>
> I wonder how much of this kind of wealth from FLOSS is what the
> finance minister responsible for ... at the end of the day the finance
> minister is responsible and answerable for real hard money - lowering
> of fiscal deficit and so on. The kind of wealth that you are talking
> about is more of a social nature than monetary (not economic) ... so
> even if I agree on the equity of social wealth that FLOSS generates, I
> believe you are barking up the wrong tree (only the finance ministry) for
> the same ... what you are asking involves the finance, social and various
> other departments ... why should only the finance minister be paying
> (through subsidies) benefits that other departments enjoy (wealth
> sharing=higher standard of living for everybody= lower govt. social
> support cost)?
two things: i first mentioned the monetary wealth, and how it is possible in
freedom-based software. and several other monetary benefits, opportunities,
etc.
the second one, the non-monetary wealth, has nothing to do with the finance
minister's decrees or whatever. yet to me are important, his doing so will
bring me these.
third, had mentioned these in response to sanjeev ghane gupta's direct query
wondering on my motivations for asking for these taxes. i understand his
reason: people plea to get taxes removed or tax rebates or deductions, people
do not usually ask for taxes to be applied. and along comes this fool called
linuxlingam who is loudly asking and pleading for taxation, in today's day
and age.
so had to explain the total extent of my madness to him.
[grin]
:-)
LL
>
> - Sandip "economics ignoramus" Bhattacharya
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