as in for instance bahrain you can't be sure but people have to be able to troy now you know thomas carlyle a scottish philosopher and scholar of the french revolution said all the way back in the nineteenth century that revolutions are initiated by idealists they're carried out by fanatics and they're hijacked by scoundrels and i think this is pretty much what they've seen in the arab world so far but my question is a little bit different you are now also pushing for a revolution of sorts with. the. free software movement and i wonder if you really sure that. you know the results of that revolution if it ever happens won't be. hijacked by people who have a question arius and the reason is that first of all. it's you're saying revolution but that's using the term in a figurative sense because if the users have control over their software that doesn't involve changing the organisation of the state so it's not a revolution literally speaking it simply means returning to users of computing the autonomy that's they have in non digital life what we see happening is a transition from non digital