At the outset, I would like to clarify the question of age. When I
said that you were too young to understand, I did not mean to imply
that the older a person gets, the wiser he is. All I meant is that
the last revolutionary movement in India took place around 1976 when
the emergency was on. I personaly lost many friends and co-workers
and many of us suffered a lot to bring huge amount of freedom for the
next generation. We Indians are an ahistorical race, and even those
who suffered through the emergency appear to have forgotten the
terror that was unleashed on the public. That said, pointwise reply:
On 25-Oct-07, at 1:52 PM, Vihan Pandey wrote:
On 10/24/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
kgb, hitler stalin et al != microsoft
dirty corporations + power hungry oppressive governments = kgb, hitler
stalin et al and worse.
precisely which dirty corporations+ powerhungry oppressive
governments are you equating with hitler and stalin? Have you the
faintest clues as to what you are talking about
I am afraid you are belittling it
That is an incorrect conclusion.
so who do you equate the fsf martyrs to - Mangal Pande? Bhagat Singh?
Nelson Mandela? Ho Che Minh? Che Guevara?
- dont equate an intellectual war with a physical one.
This is a different time. We live in the knowledge age wherein our
knowledge ends up being encoded and transferred into computers. This
IS a struggle for saving our knowledge, our culture, and all that we
hold dear from being locked out.
yes, *we* live in a knowledge age. We members of this list, none of
whom earns less than 3 lakhs a year. But 99 crores of people in India
do not live there
and just because it is an intellectual war and not YET a physical one
- does that make it less important?
yes - almost irrelevant. Fighting Monsanto is relevant - thousands of
farmers commit suicide because of Monsanto
Just think of those whistle blowers who got
killed for exposing corruption - and are getting killed every now and
then in India.
i do. But do you consider the those dedicated to the FSF to not be
revolutionaries?
no, and if you think so, you have no idea of what revolution is.
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
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http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
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