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> 1. Re: Open Democracy (Nishant Prakash Kashyap)
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> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:06:28 +0530
> From: Nishant Prakash Kashyap
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> > Go right ahead, but please leave the politics off this list. This is a
> > forum for discussing Linux and Free and Open Source Software, not a
> > platform for spouting political views that have nothing to do with Linux
> > and/or FOSS in India.
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> > Regards,
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> even kandalaya.org needs a revamp along with our
> constitution. Its ugly looking boring site which has not been updated from
> last 6 years i believe.
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> One day, FOSS will not exist in India, because one day some politician will
> make take it as revolt and say FOSS is anti-constitutional after having
> sweets from proprietary software vendors. We will not be able to defend it
> as it has nothing to do with Linux in India. Afterall we all are techies
> and
> not Politicians, leave alone being a responsible citizen of India.
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> Regards,
> Nishant Kashyap
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> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:43:54 +0530
> From: Anupam Jain
> To: Neeraj Semwal
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> Subject: Re: [ilugd] Open Democracy
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> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Neeraj Semwal
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> > Hello Everyone,
> > For the past 2-3 months I have been thinking of an
> > idea, an idea which has the potential of changing the lives of many.
> > I am thinking about making a new amended version of 'The Constitution of
> > India' and thus changing the way our 'Largest Democracy' is today and
> doing
> > the full development in the public domain making it open source and by
> > following the open source development model.
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> [... snip ...]
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> With Regards,
> >
> > Neeraj Semwal
> >
> >
> Neeraj,
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> First, I agree with others that we need to keep politics off this list
> (especially such long rants). Second, IMO it's not the place of one citizen
> (or many) to "rewrite" the constitution, instead we need to select the
> right
> candidates who can do so as representatives of the public. I have started
> working on a tool/website for helping people make informed choices. If you
> want to make a difference you can contribute your time to developing that
> tool.
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> -- Anupam
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> End of Ilugd Digest, Vol 8, Issue 12
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First of all I apologize to all those brevity seekers who find it to be the
soul of wit, perhaps I could've eaten alphabets and crapped out a better
essay but the real trouble with reality is that there's no background music,
may be thats why it appeared to be an unnecessary 'long political rant' to
some. And calling politics different from FOSS/Linux is prejudice because if
we say that Govt. is responsible for ensuring our freedom then it is the
resposiblity of the very same Govt. to ensure our Digital Freedom and
FOSS/Linux is all about digital fr
