Re: [ILUG-BOM] Importance of Free Software in Democracies.

Mrugesh Karnik wrote:

On Friday 08 Jun 2007 21:32:03 Rony wrote:

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Therefore its is absolutely necessary that Governments of Democratic Nations adopt free software and formats in order to safeguard their data and get it out of the clutches and control of the corporate entities.

Laughable. This is all assuming that the society is in a fine state; as if the people behave properly and that the democracy actually works.

Why do you find the concept of freedom laughable?

This is all nice and dandy in Europe or USA. Indians still need to grow up mentally for this to be applicable.

So? Till then we shoot down the idea of freedom, free software. Amazing!