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Politics and Freedoms

Today, our society has had its focus forced into inward looking selfishness and greed. We all suffer when greed gets out of control. Greed ravished the world in October 2008 at a massive cost to the rest of society. Yet we could see it coming well before it hit. Would you stand on a railway line watching the approaching train and simply stand there a let it hit you? That's some governments have done.

Government, elected by the people, came to make decisions in the best interest of the corporations, in the belief that the corporation will then look after the people. This does not work. In a society as wealthy as ours, the aim of government should be to govern for all, rather than to smooth the way for more wealth in the hands of so few at the cost of the lives of many people. Successful and wealthy societies must look after its people, helping all to have an education, good health, housing, communications, and care. Freedoms underpin a functioning society, one that cares for its citizens. We need to look after each other, irrespective of religion, race, eduction, age, and gender.

Fundamentally, we need to nurture freedom and openness, to maintain the basis of a good society. And there are many forces working against this in our society today, often disguised as endeavours to preserve our freedoms!

From an information technology perspective, the freedom to share ideas expressed in software, to build on and innovate from the ideas of others, is just one part of the picture. But we all need to strive to bring peace, happiness, and freedom, to all, whoever they are, the world over.

This is why I support the ideas of free (as in libre or freedom) open source software (FLOSS). This empowers everyone and anyone, with basic access to computing resources, to learn from those who have gone before, and to contribute in a positive way to all of society, not just the mega corporations that have just one goal - profit, for themselves and their shareholders.