[wsfii-discuss] Fwd: [Fsf-press] Software Freedom Day

Wed Oct 12 15:41:39 UTC 2005

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:37:38PM +0530, Vivek Varghese Cherian wrote:
> Quoting Mamading Ceesay <mamading at gmail.com>:
> 
> > On 05/10/05, Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun at gnowledge.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > No he didn't.  He practiced a method of protesting by civil
> > > disobedience to fight the british.  A part of the freedom movement was
> > > how to make salt on owr own, without depending on the british, and how
> > > to make cloth on owr own without depending on the imported mill cloth.
> > > These are good illustrations of how technology could enable people
> > > develop a culture.  So we adopted that spirit and gave the call: let
> > > us weave our own code.
> > >
> >
> > Had a discussion about Gandhi in another context.  From that it was
> > clear that his methods/approach are still relevant and should be
> > studied/practiced today.  I hadn't thought his work didn't have a
> > direct bearing on the sort of things I get involved with but now I
> > think I should read up on him.
> >
> > --
> > Mamading Ceesay
> >
> > "Isn't a state that keeps files on innocent persons a police state?"
> > -- David Mery - Innocent In London http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html
> >  Radio Interview with David Mery
> > http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/6963.php
> 
> 
> 
> Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography is titled " My experiments with truth". In the

Did he do really any interesting experiments with truth and if yes, what
was their result? I am too lazy to chase and then read some proprietary
book, especially in the light of the fact that I don't have any time :/

"The truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction."

Jeepers creepers - holly jumping shit! It's even more powerful than this
50-Megaton bomb? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

As soon as superpowers start arm races in truth, the world is definitely
doomed! :)

CL<

> book he clearly states his early moral choices between right and wrong and how
> he took a conscious decision not to lie for the rest of his life.
> 
> His moral courage of non-violent resistance to imperalism worldwide inspired not
> only millions of indians against the organising a non-violent freedom struggle
> against the imperialist rule that they were subjugated to at that point of time
> in History, but also inspired leaders like Nelson Mandela in South Africa and
> Martin Luther King right in the very heart of the USA to organise similar
> movements against racial injustice.
> 
> I hope the book will help you learn more about Gandhi and how his persona
> evolved over time, his childhood, his student life in London, his law practise
> in South Africa where once he was asked to get off a first class train
> compartment for which he had the ticket, only because of the colour of his
> skin, and finally his heroic non-violent resistance to the imperialistic forces
> in his own motherland which won Freedom for India.
> 
> He is rightly called "The Father of the Nation" called India, and his methods
> have greater relavance today than during any former period in history,
> especially for grass root initatives as a means of non-violent protest against
> Globalisation and the Patent Regimes.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Vivek Varghese Cherian
> Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>
> 
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