Hi all , The erstwhile footballer Pappachan went to the German third division league in the mid ninenties. The hearsay is that for the first ten minutes , he could not even see the ball. Thus the phrase "Indian Footballer in a German League" Now , i suspect most people ( me included) in this group are in such a state on the communism debate and BSD vs GPL debate,. There is a opinion that FSF is advocating Free Software "Communism" ( or marxism , leninism , socialism ) and only a deep analysis will prove that that it is not the case. Some believe "Crowd is right" , i think "Crowd will make something right ". So , it is hard to change this perception. When we convince ten people about the inner meaning of GNU and other stuff , Hundreds are at the gate with other views. I think discussion about Technical stuff do not produce these kind of ambiguity. Let us make the mission of the group as "ILUG ( Programming / Systems group ) and we do discuss licensing and social issues as well". ( Now it is "License to Kill" and the youngsters whom i have interacted do not have a clue about why this fuss about freedom , licensing , Stallman ( Slowly and steadly , i feel that he is an "idiot" who failed to live a life. ) etc) The "moral upmanship game " which Stallman "believers" advocate do not have economic incentives. So , it will become a minority movement which will crib about all the evils happening in the software world. Now, this group has got a social dimension . It helps die hard believers of stallmanism ( a new meme ! ) to assemble and socialize. I like this because , it shows the diversity of the world. if some in the group does not do it , someelse will chip in to the same. regards Praseed Pai http://praseedp.blogspot.com P.S :- We get new members because L is confused as Linux !.
--- On Fri, 9/24/10, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote: From: Praveen A <[email protected]> Subject: [ILUG-Cochin.org] [OT] Re: സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര് സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യ ദിനം ബ്ലോഗു് To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 24, 2010, 4:44 PM 2010, സെപ്റ്റംബര് 23 2:03 വൈകുന്നേരം നു, Anilkumar KV <[email protected]> എഴുതി: > RMS is wrong when he say there was communism in USSR. And I feel, it comes > from his weak understanding on Communism I think we are goin off topic here, but one more question. You say, communism was not present in USSR. Is there any other country where communism was practiced or it is still being practiced? Is China a communist country? -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
_______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
