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Microsoft Targeting Indian Developers
Pranjal writes "An Indian Business magazine, Business World is reporting that in it's war against Linux, Microsoft is taking the battle to the Indian developers. The logic is simple. India has 10% of the developer population of the world. If a significant number of these developers commit to work on MS platforms then the number of developers working on Linux platforms can decrease significantly and thus the number of applications. As Dilip Mistry, a director at Microsoft India's Bangalore office puts it, "This country can affect our (Microsoft's) destiny." [Quote From article] Local linux user groups are trying to counter this threat by targetting school and university students and increasing the awareness about development on a linux platform. Read the full story here. [Nice cover don't you think?]"
Goodwill? Being magnanimous? What does the article say:
He said he worried that India's enormous progress in information technology -- the country has the only Microsoft software development center outside the United States -- would be thwarted by AIDS.
Ohhh. Okay.
He also wore a "tika" (the deep red mark on the forehead). Anybody have actual pictures (as opposed to your 5 minute Photoshop efforts).
Instead of usign the standard variable names like "foo", "bar", "blah", and "temp", can we expect new ones to take their place? Like "mohawk", "how", "red_skin" and "white_man_bad" ?
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
Well you know what the say around Microsoft. "A happy developer is one without AIDS". Yep, that's what they say.
"but you certainly don't have to belittle his philanthropic work. "
Why not? If he calls charitable work by open source developers "communist" and "cancer" why should he be immune from the same kind of criticism? Besides he is the richest man in the world what the fuck does he care what anybody on slashdot says about him?
War is necrophilia.
But what do they do when the money runs out? Free information doesn't run out.
...give a person a fish and they'll be full for today, teach them to fish and they'll be full for a lifetime...
Paraphrasing:
GPL'd computer software has fuck all to do with medicine, dickwad. Or are you proposing a GPL'd drug system?
Get a fucking clue. Software is not important in the large scheme of things.
Coming soon - pyrogyra
he does actually saves starving people and other individuals dying of AIDS.
Since when is there a cure for AIDS? And on another note... If Saddam Hussein donated some millions to the starving kids in Africa, does that make him a good person?
Damn, I almost mis-read your _ENTIRE POST_ as "Gee, I'm a stuck-up prick."