Spreading the FOSS message the Gandhian way

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 4, 2009 6:37 AM EDT
iTWire; By Sam Varghese
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There are some among the FOSS community who pay lip service to Mahatma Gandhi when talking about this genre of software. There are others who actually put Gandhi's methods into practice to spread the message. Four young men from the south Indian state of Kerala recently followed the example of the Mahatma - who undertook a famous march in 1930 against the tax on salt, to defy the British colonial rulers of India - and walked from one end of the state to the other , meeting people along the way, to spread the message of free software.

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