On Thursday 07 April 2011 12:16 PM, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 07:57 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote:
Who decides Publicness of Software? ie defining the Term Public
Software
Public or people do, through various means of political expression open
to them, of which representational politics and elections are just one.
We also need to keep in mind that our governments are showing a tendency
to move away from providing such services.For instance, governments are
increasingly depending on private agencies to provide services like
health and education and moving out of these sectors. Even public taps
are becoming rare.
These perverse directions are good reasons on insist on publicness of
all these things, basic health, education, water, as well as, basic
software. More privatisation insist more we need to fight for values of
publicness rather than ourselves abandon it.
How do we prevent the government from making all
public software private one day?
It is not for the governments to do such a thing. It is not in their
hands. In the same way that they cannot sell-off or privatize democracy.
These concepts belong to the people.
thanks, parminder
Best
Sasi
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