Un correo viejo de Arun ( de gnu.org.in - uno de los fundadores ) Re: [hipatia-socios] documento From: Arun M <.....................> To: La lista de los socios de ONG-hipatia <[email protected]> Date: 2010-08-19 08:36 Dear All,
I learn that there is some discussion in Hipatia on use of term public software. I dont follow it due to linguistic barrier. But I thought i should give a quick update of what is happening in India. I've been keeping away from free software scene in India for last one and a half year. Partly the reason is I see a bureaucratic-NGO take over of free software scene in India. Philosophy and community does not stand much any more (Money Money Money!). Couple of weeks back I got a call from a friend who works with Govt of Kerala. He told me that chief bureaucrat in the govt received a letter from an NGO suggesting that term Free and Open Source Software in the govt policy document may be replace with 'Public Software'. Bureaucrat was in favor of the suggestion. But I asked minister's office to reject the suggestion as any change in policy needs ot be done only in consultation with public. (We had several rounds of public open discussions across the region to arrive at our policy- very open transparent process) Then I tried to understand what is public sector software. One document I found is attached to this letter. I feel that intention here is not very good. Going through search results I got I found that it is just a single organisation, IT for Change, which does not have any considerable experience or commitment on free software that tries to promote this. Though it is good that they are trying to promote free software in government. To me their strategy looks to be an effort to remove freedom from the discussion. Same old issue with Open Source, while Open Source was coined in the interest of private business, here new name to enter into public projects- Accessing public fund, making friends with ! Interestingly this group which does not have any experience in free software obtained funding from EU and UNESCO !!!! Now you see right ? Who needs community, who needs freedom ! Free software movement, as it is getting institutionalized through complacent NGO, is loosing revolutionary content. Only good thing is Richard has put it in a very strong foundation with GNU GPL. (I am loosing my interest in free software movement as a revolutionary movement. It has been taken over by NGOs and Financial interests.Doesnt mean that I dont contribute or support the idea). Couple of links: http://www.itforchange.net/oss/83-ps.html https://www.pubsoft.org/pubsoft.py/index http://public-software-centre.org/ On Thursday 18 August 2011, Diego Saravia wrote: > > aun desde una filosofia talibana del SL, > > eso es un insulto. que tienen que ver los talibanes con el soft libre? > > > yo creo que HAY que ideologizar el tema, > > El tema es ideologico, lamentablemente, en el sentido marxista y > peyorativo de la ideologia > > es decir ideologia es lo que no es ciencia > > > lo que hay que hacer es politizar el tema > > > lo que quedo claro en estas jornadas que hay un fuerte criterio, > > que seguramente pasara a ser el mas sustentable, > > que la licencia basica debe ser la GPL v 2.0, > > por que no 3.0? > > > o lo que salga de una traduccion autorizada, > > o lo que apruebe una norma local respetando la 4 libertades, etc..., > > con la necesaria modificacion jurisdiccionbal respecto del tramite > > judicial sobre posibles controversias respecto de la propia licencia. > > el tramite es internacional en muchos casos > > el 99 % del soft libre tiene licencia con autores en otros paises > > > Lo propuesto de nuestra ONTI, no es algo tan simple, > > pero el debate esta abierto, > > que seria eso? > > ________________________________________________ > > > Solar-General es una lista abierta a toda la comunidad, sin ninguna > moderación, por lo que se apela a la tolerancia y al respeto mutuo. Las > opiniones expresadas son responsabilidad exclusiva de sus respectivos/as > autores/as. La Asociación Solar no se hace responsable por los mensajes > vertidos, ni representan necesariamente el punto de vista de la Asociación > Solar. > > [email protected] > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/solar-general -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Karmanyevadhikarasthe ma phaleshu kadachana Fingerprint = EBFC CDE9 E57C 3EAD 65B1 2A59 5364 48C8 EACF 7357 Public key = 0xEACF7357 at http://pgp.mit.edu
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