Summery : Its time to reach common public. A good article by Manu - http://manuknkra.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/another-struggle-of-freedom-for-india-follow-gandhiji/ == Another Struggle of FREEDOM for India : Follow Gandhiji == “You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.” -Mahatma Gandhi
This particular quote by Gandhiji is highlited in Richard M. Stallman’s blog, which shows RMS admires Gandhiji. Gandhiji who fought british for the freedom of India. British ruled many nations in this world for centuries which include India. Gandhiji with his non-violence methods and love for the nation compelled British to leave India. Similar way RMS is fighting for the freedom of software users. In todays world its proprietary softwares who restricted the freedom of software users. He is leading us for the freedom of the use of a software. Today it is succesful in most parts of the world. In India also it is successful in most ways. This particular link shows how much it is successful in India http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList/. But it will be completely successful when there comes a time where a new kid looking at the computer first time is using free software. What happens now is that when a father bring a PC to the home and the child is delighted to see it for the first time, but he is using proprietary software. This binds his freedom of using it and is bound in chains when he just enters the computer world. India can be free again but this time it will be from proprietary software. For that we should fight for the freedom, just in a similar way Gandhiji fought with British. Following Gandhiji and his works other countries too got the idea to fight with British. Press and other media played a major role in spreading Gandhiji words. RMS has already started the great revolution now we should follow the movement. Today there are lots of groups in India who are following it. Gandhiji BOYCOTTED foreign goods and worked for common man. Similarly we should boycott proprietary softwares. There are people in India who had already done that. There are many people already supporting the movement. But some are there who claim to support Free software but are using closed formats to present their ideas. This should be stopped. This is not the fault of these people, they are the kids I mentioned before who are now grown. There are journals, mailing lists, irc’s which spread the Free word to each and every user (hacker/developer), but not to the common man (normal user). These are the users who dont have internet, have seen only proprietary software, might have seen computer only in cafes or college/school labs or offices. These normal users must be targeted. For that media or press has to spread it to common users. Posters, newspapers, radio and TV are the traditional sources which is still followed by normal users. This can show a large difference. Common man of India would have never known the meaning of freedom if Gandhiji and other freedom fighters woudnt have told them. But the question is ‘who’ will do this, spread the Free word to common user. Is FOSS movement mentioned in TV or Radio or Newspapers? So that they uderstand the meaning of freedom, and support the Free movement which will lead to the elimination of proprietary software from our country. So that the ‘new kids will be free even after they enter the computer world’. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘ _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
