Senthil Nathan You might be right about all the local or Indian, 'stains' of the communists.
But fundamentally communism is about collective ownership and freeing resources from private ownership, say, the idea that all the Land should be owned by the state, very much akin to what FOSS is doing in technology. The concept ought to be good. Even though we despise the label called 'communism', we can take what is good from it. You know the biggest mafia/exploitation is in the real estate business. regards Nataraj On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Senthil Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 13, 2011 1:02 AM, "Arun Venkataswamy" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Senthil Nathan <[email protected] >>wrote: >> >> > On Oct 12, 2011 5:33 PM, "kenneth gonsalves" <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:09 +0530, Senthil Nathan wrote: >> > > > communist Party of India to lobby the TN government in this >> > > > regard. >> > > >> > > what do they know about this issue? >> > > -- >> > >> > Their policy is to oppose crony capitalism and american capitalism. So > they >> > may oppose Microsoft since it is allegedly using backdoor means to > promote >> > their product at the cost of pubic money. >> > >> > >> communist philosophy is not FOSS philosophy. >> and I hope FOSS is not the opposite of capitalism. >> >> Also, every bit of IT technology we enjoy today is mostly the result of >> American capitalism. >> >> Arun >> _______________________________________________ >> ILUGC Mailing List: >> http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > > Unless there is some political backing it is not possible to persuade TN > government to install Linux and include Wifi in free laptops. Among the > allies of ruling party, CPI is the most likely party to support us in our > fight against "windows only" policy. At this moment there is a coincidence > of interest in opposing unfair priority given to Microsoft windows. It > doesn't mean that we endorse all their political views and philosophies. > Yeah, suggesting an opportunistic partnership. > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
