[Mailinglist] Article in Frontline on Free Software

[Sameer Mohamed Thahir]

Hello ILUG Members

Frontline(May edition) carries an article on Free Software and Free knowledge by V Sasi Kumar.
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" The new freedom movement , in software, knowledge, publishing and
commerce, will change the way we think, do things and interact.*


/Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases 
to be moral. /

– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi imperialism broke free.

Politically, that is. We still do not enjoy certain freedoms that we 
deserve. A new wave of freedom movements, to achieve these freedoms, is 
now sweeping the world – a movement that is bound to change the way we 
think, the way we do things and the way we interact. It started in the 
United States and aims to free people from the clutches of monopoly 
corporations. And the role of Gandhiji is being played by an 
extraordinary person with long hair and a long beard; a man called 
Richard Mathew Stallman, who vehemently rejects any comparison with 
Gandhiji or Nelson Mandela. ....."

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Read the rest at
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20080523251008900.htm


Thank You
Regards
Sameer Mohamed Thahir