Thu January 1 1970 India is considered to be the Largest Democracy, where Largest denotes population. And Democracy is supposed to mean, traditionally, a government Of the People, By the People and For the People. I would like to examine whether this is really so.

How do we ensure that the government is really of, by and for the people? The means adopted ...

Thu January 1 1970 When Raghu could not open a document received via email from a friend abroad, he decided to call his colleague Harish who was the local troubleshooter for all kinds of problems related to computers. Harish took a look at the file and told Raghu that he would not be able to open it in Word because it was a Lotus WordPro document. Raghu was, natural ...

Thu January 1 1970 It is after a long time that I am able to write something here. Had been rather busy and also rather tired. :-)

This is something that I have been wanting to write about for some time, but have not been able to. Since this blog is called "Free as in Freedom", I thought this is the right place to write about it. As you must have guessed, ...

Thu January 1 1970

Thu January 1 1970 The last two days we have been relatively free, though we were not idle. Yesterday, we went to a local organisation that was promoting OLPC in Paraguay. Their office was located in a rather posh house in an expensive locality. We met some young guys there who spoke good English and were apparently trained in Boston. One of them told us that he had ...

Thu January 1 1970 The Free Software movement has seeded many other movements that strive for freedom in creativity. These include Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Open Access in scholarly publication, and so on. Some music groups have said that it is better for them if free download of music is permitted because that helps their music reach more people, which, in turn, ...

Thu January 1 1970 The publishing industry started with the invention of the printing press. What used to be a time-consuming and difficult task, namely, making copies of books, became much simpler and fast. Thousands of copies could be made within days. This meant that owners of printing machines could make thousands of copies of books and sell them to make money. ...

Thu January 1 1970 Copyright laws came into being in the face of the arrival of printing technology. The intension behind bringing the law was to allow authors to benefit financially from their work. The idea was that this would encourage creative people to create more so that society would benefit. But now things have changed without people even noticing the change ...

Thu January 1 1970 It seems Microsoft has contributed some money to the Apache Foundation. Unbelievable? See here. This, of course, naturally sets people thinking. About what Microsoft is up to. ...

Thu January 1 1970 I should guess the recent release of Firefox 3 and the upcoming release of OpenOffice.org 3 (I still wonder why the name of the software should have .org attached to it) will give a new boost to Free Software, especially GNU/Linux. Firefox is already the best browser feature-wise. With the large number of useful and interesting addons, no other br ...