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

Fri Oct 14 09:05:37 UTC 2005

I thought the salt march was to challenge the British monopoly and the
ban on Indians manufacturing salt themselves? I mean, it was sorta
anti-proprietary &  microeconomy thing. Rather like challenging the M$
monopoly - it's not that we're whingily dependent, it's that we've been
subjected to an unfair monopoly backed, ultimately, by battleship
diplomacy and a foreign regime of rapacious merchant-politicians. Go
Gandhi!

Paula

Karel Kulhavy wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:37:38PM +0530, Vivek Varghese Cherian wrote:
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>>Quoting Mamading Ceesay <mamading at gmail.com>:
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>>>On 05/10/05, Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun at gnowledge.org> wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>--
>>>Mamading Ceesay
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>>>"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
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>>Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography is titled " My experiments with truth". In the
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>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 :/
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>"The truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction."
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>Jeepers creepers - holly jumping shit! It's even more powerful than this
>50-Megaton bomb? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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>As soon as superpowers start arm races in truth, the world is definitely
>doomed! :)
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>CL<
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>-- 
>>Vivek Varghese Cherian
>>Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>
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