On Thursday 15 October 2009, Harish Singh wrote: > <quote>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.</quote>
The idea to fight the Brits was not the Mahatma's but that of Lokmanya Tilak and Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Gandhiji initially felt that British rule was beneficial, it having liberated us from corrupt and inept fiefdoms. Gandhiji's contribution to freedom was liberating swaraj from the ivory towers and making it the common mans fight. The principles of Ahimsa and austerity were not his either but of his guru Shrimad Rajchandra. There are several manuscripts, letters etc between Gandhiji and Rajchandra at Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram, Agas in gujarati (unintelligible to me,unfortunately). A lesson perhaps for us too. Even the educated (which is a miniscule minority anyway) fail to see the assault on their freedom by changes in standards, copyright and ip laws, genetic and medical products etc. In fact a complete ignorance of technology as it shapes the air, water, food and thought within their heads. Do we need a membership drive? -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
