On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:38 PM, parminder <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > No i do not think so its a fiefdom which has built up over the years , for now its a mirage we all are looking at , lets take a smaller example organizations like BCCI , Trusts in various forms do they also fall under the same ambit ? -Satya fossevents.in
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