On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 21:32 +0530, Rony wrote: > In today's world knowledge is getting more and more digitized. Due to > this digitization, it is the major Corporates that are controlling > access to this knowledge through software code. In a Democracy where > information (knowledge) should flow freely and be accessible to all, > this control of knowledge by the software giants is dangerous and > unwanted. This is even more important for the Governments to ensure that > third parties do not control their data.
Maybe a little off topic. But FSF's philosophy ( in particular, the freedom to learn ) is nothing new. Our very own Dr.Homi Bhabha believed that knowledge should be free. Since at that time nuclear energy was thought to be the one source of energy that would end the "energy crisis", he was pretty pissed with the USA for not helping India develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. This, according to him, was "restriction of knowledge". -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
