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Speaking Out For Free Software In India
inode_buddha writes "We all know how RMS and Bill Gates toured India recently, with mostly mixed reviews. The reviews don't seem so mixed after reading this memo
regarding the use of software in Indian schools... and it's interesting how quickly these people pick up on the business.
IMHO, this letter ranks up there with the Peruvian Congressman's letter to Microsoft in clarity and impact.
People worldwide are beginning to wake up, and this needs to be shouted from the (networked) hills... "
India will be assimilated...
I am very glad that some people in the world are beginning to 'get it' when it comes to open source. Even if microsoft has crippling control over America, open-source still has a chance in other parts of the world.
Now it is our duty as an open-source community to create USABLE software that any Indian government official, or peruvian office worker, can use. Now that people are starting to see the light, we need to standardize a gui (I would say gnome is the most user friendly and usable one), standardize a web browser (mozilla anyone?), remove the need for archaic unix 'command prompts' and create a good suite of office tools that are on par with microsoft office.
Now is our chance to have open-source software become popular throughout the world, we just have to make sure that it can compete and is compatible with microsoft's products before people will make the big switch!
Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater! God bless the USA!
those $2 sand niggahs should have NO rights, they are filthy fucken black pieces of smelly shit which should remain there their sand ridden shit hole called india! fuck there curry cunts, fuck em hard!
Yes we know. Yes we've heard it all before. Yes it's nice that some people are realising this. But we also know that no matter how many humble recommendations the actually knowledgeable people submit, Microsoft is still going to bribe and strong-arm their way into this market as well.
... yeah it's nice but it ultimately doesn't mean much. I haven't heard much about that Peruvian Free Software bill making much progress either. (then again, Peru hates American influence just about enough for that to have a hope of happening, I think)
Show me a nationwide IT deployment that doesn't run Microsoft and then I'll REALLY be impressed. As it stands though
those $2 sand niggahs should have NO rights, they are filthy fucken black pieces of smelly shit which should remain there their sand ridden shit hole called india! fuck there curry cunts, fuck em hard!
and a big fucking to slashcode "This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original..."
I really have to wonder why so many PRO-Microsoft and ANTI-open source community posts. Let's face the fact - Microsoft REALLY IS evil and it would be everyones benefit if we could nuke it off this planet.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
While I'm glad that India is embracing open-source and Linux so heartily, it's really going to do quite little to solve that country's woes unfortunately. I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of India.
So, I was in Bangalore, India last March for about a week on business. A bit of background: Bangalore is a special technology development area that the Indian government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that India really ISN'T a moldering third world country with its populace living in utterly squalid, filthy slums. Here, rules are relaxed and IT and other technology is encouraged. Well, let me tell you this, if this is India's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the plane from Delhi (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit, death and cow dung that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and cow dung all over, with many people seemingly near death (or are they dead already) lying in agony in the streets from God knows what. Kids were playing in filthy pools, throwing shit around. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of gibberish that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Indians stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud. And you guys might want to re-think that cow-worship thing -- they aren't exactly the cleanest of animals to be keeping around, and sharing living spaces with humanity.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time India opens up to the world as a purported source for "cheap" IT and other "skilled labor". Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Indian people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap IT services that everyone talks about can be found in Eastern Europe or Asia, where at least the country and its people don't experience stuff like plague and cholera as a day to day way of life.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I was having dinner (by the way, how can anyone eat that curry shit for all their lives, is way beyond me) with a young female business associate, and afterwards, we had a few drinks. One thing lead to another and I paid 1500 rupees (about $30 US) for a great fuck, with a bright 25 year old programmer. Boy, those Indian girls sure can get it on -- almost as good as the Chinese. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe.
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's India. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called IT development that's just show more than anything.
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Why don't you suck on my FREE-as-in-ejaculating cock?
This is a country that supports terrorism and many charities in the US are under investigation. Why do you keep posting stories about a nation such as this?
Wow, bashing the US and Microsoft in one post and it hasn't been modded up to +5 insightful yet? Wake up the moderators, they appear to be asleep at the wheel again.