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
How much role the public have in deciding Publicness of Public water ? State is the authority to decide even now. With the help of much celebrated World Bank/NGO language you can say that it can be decided to Stakeholder consultations . But even in that deciding authority is the state It just means the responsibility of pushing /correcting the ambiguous term is again in the hands of Public who are using well accepted definitions such as Free Software/ FOSS > > 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. Insisting Publicness of Free Software is important . But Naming it as public software is giving control on interpreting that term to state again, which is harmful I like to know how ITfor Change is going to address this problem , before pushing such terms to policies > > 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. Democracy is already getting privatized! If you need more proof visit any Tamilnadu Villeges/ Read Hungama offer manifestos of Both Front's in TN . Election commission captures more than 1 crore each and everyday Anivar > > thanks, parminder > > Best > Sasi > > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
