On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:52 PM, parminder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Anivar > > On the question you raise
You are not anwering my questions. you are selecting some part you like and and answer out of context > 'how much role public has in deciding the publicness of water?' > > There have been successful mass movements to reclaim the pulbicness of water, > notably in Bolivia and some other Latin American countries. This does not answer my question in context. Please answer inline in future to answer question on context. I am repeating the thread again below Anivar> Who decides Publicness of Software? ie defining the Term Public Anivar> Software > Parminder> Public or people do, through various means of political expression open to Parminder> them, of which representational politics and elections are just one Anivar> How much role the public have in deciding Publicness of Public water ? Anivar> State is the authority to decide even now. Anivar> With the help of much celebrated World Bank/NGO language Anivar> you can say that it can be decided to Stakeholder consultations . Anivar> But even in that deciding authority is the state Anivar> It just means the responsibility of pushing /correcting the ambiguous Anivar> term is again in the hands of Public who are using well accepted Anivar> definitions such as Free Software/ FOSS In Most of the goverments State was the Custodian of Public Property and Rights Granter to others. Ie is not Free and some kind of fairuse permission granter. Whether it is water/health or forest or any other State is the agency that defines Publicness of it . Only struggle who claimed the right of commons on physical property was the struggle for Forest Rights act. It tooks many years of struggle . As of Now FOSS is not in that ambiguous condition. we dont need to go through all these struggles to get a proper definition recognised by the state. But the promotion of the term "Public Software" in Policy will bring that ambiguity back again I hope You will respond to this argument as whole without out of context quotes Please leave The question about status of democracy (in which i have a different take, after current incidents & all these wikileaks exposes) to a personal discussion, which is offtopic here Anivar _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
