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Indian Government Goes For Free Software
Geekonomical writes "Economic Times has an article that says Indian Government's Department of IT is going to encourage Linux and OSS on all fronts including college education! The article has more details (eventhough it has a misleading title!) The reasoning being more of plain economics than security or other reasons."
well, what tha hell... i had karma to sacrifice.
When did the word change to mean "Jewish" and disenfranchise other semitic peoples? According to USians, palestinians are anti-semitic? What, they don't like themselves???
Christ man... picking a fight between the two most populated countries in the world? indian /.ers to mod you up and chinese /.ers to mod you down...
this will be an interesting case study of slashdot math indeed.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Maybe the next RedHat won't include Iraq as even a country.... Or put a nice US flag beside it.
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More than racist, it is ignorant. So much for techies being more globally aware....
This joke references traditional Hindu beliefs, but it doesn't do so maliciously. I doubt this would offend Hindus.
In addition, I believe that even some offensive jokes can be deemed non-racist/non-hateful; my proof is anecdotal: my friends have occassionally made jokes about me that I at first found offensive but on further reflection, I had to agree that the jokes were pretty accurate. The whole experience is much difference than being the butt of a spiteful joke. Racism or hate is pretty much in the attiude of the joke-holder.
Collectively, of course, even innoncent or naive jokes can have a bad effect on a group... but that's a different subject entirely.
It kind of scares me that people will jump on an innoccuous wordplay and call it "racist". Every age has its witchhunts. (Though I agree that the joke may be overrated at +5.)
-1, Too Many Layers Of Abstraction
Did you notice the many grammatical and spelling errors in the article? I did.
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