Hello,
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Pranesh Srinivasan <spranesh at gmail.com>
wrote:
what Sarad AV has said to let them pass. My apologies for fanning theI do not wish to flare your temper, or start a flame war, I agree but feel
that there are too many "given wisdom" statements in
Monopolies are born out of perceived _convenience_If you want to skip the rest of this mail then the pithy summary is:
(Or less security)._Convenience_ is the always wrong reason to accept less choice
(only) ideology _and_ has something to do with GNU and Linux!I assure you that the rest of this mail is not
As long as we don't have the numbers, what we sayyou wrote:
is only a ideology. there isn't much we can do about it.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That is certainly not true. Since there is a mukta O/S and a mukta
network to connect to we do have a choice and we can exercise it.
Yes, thats the first step. To truly exercise freedom, we require others to
be free because we live in a society of dependence. Hence we still need the
numbers.