On 25/12/2008, Sameer Mohamed Thahir <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you cite examples of any schools doing this. You may please approach, some high school students and ask them about what is software and then how free software is different. If they could say some thing about software then many of them will surely hint the philosophy of free software. One confusion here is created by free software community itself by insisting on use of ambiguous words like 'free'. A better usage might have conveyed more philosophy on software freedom to our students. By insisting on use certain words, many watch us (the so called free software community) as mere preachers and not as practitioners. So many of them tries to be keep away from us, even if they agree with the philosophy of software freedom. Instead of realizing and correcting ourself, we are giving wrong feedback about state of free software teaching in schools. > Yes exactly, but do they really care about this while teaching > anything ?? Yes they care it. I feel such doubt arises mainly from our own ego, which makes us to think that only the so called free software community really care about philosophy of freedom, culture of sharing and collaborative development. Through out the human history, struggle to achieve freedom, and collective actions for social good are increasingly understood and practiced. The scenario in software sector after 1980 are not a break out, rather it is a continuation of earlier history. > Our meeting for this month is aimed at discussing about this. > Hope you can Join us at the meeting. :) We can also have it here in this list, so that I can ensure my participation. - കേരളീയന് _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list [email protected] http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org
