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MS Proposes Disclosing Windows Source To India

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the catch-the-catch dept.

raghuram writes "Interesting news from Economic Times of India, I found an interesting story, Microsoft Planning to Share Code with India." He excerpts from that article: "Microsoft has already made a proposal to the ministry of information technology (of India) for sharing the Windows source code with one government body. The nature of the body has not been spelt out; it will presumably be worked out after discussions between the company and the government officials. Interestingly, the offer comes at a time when state governments are showing interest in rival Linux operating system as the latter's source code is free and downloadable from the internet."

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  1. An Open Letter... by Ricky+M.+Waite · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    to the rabid zealots which infest our society.

    To whom it may concern:

    Attention with regards to Microsoft's commercial dignity with respects to India, or any country, has absolutely zero positive impact on the technological community, or so-called free software campaign. It does nothing to help. Nothing at all. No one here is rounding up warriors for the Holy crusade against the Bill Gates - instead, you masturbate to the foolish fantasies that by reading and rallying behind a socio-political propaganda bullshit site you are somehow helping win stated battle. You aren't. Your fantasy is, quite frankly, a delusional mindtrip that means dick when it comes down to it. KDE sucks. GNOME sucks. And they are not even a unified system! They both suck, separately! This is not a working system, regardless of the amount of software errors. Code is not everything, if your product does not provide the service it needs to, efficiently, and intelligently, it WILL NOT SUCCEED, regardless of the supposed lack of bugs or what have you.

    It occurs to me why I even try to explain this to the zealots. Yes, you are zealots. Pitiful, worthless, stupid zealots. Instead of working on a better system you praise the broken one, and denounce the only system which can actually acomplish what people need it to accomplish at the present day. Stop prasing your broken system, and get off your lazy, fat asses and make a better product.

    I'm tired, and that's all I'm going to say. Time to go back to chatting it up on instant messenger.

    Sincerely yours,
    Ricky

    --

    We wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade.
  2. I thought India was too poor by bmetzler · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Isn't that what the government official said last time? That India could not afford to develop their own OS?

    -Brent

  3. I think the US government should be concerned... by shaitand · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I mean seriously, could India bring up claims of an attack from the US government to the UN if we allowed a weapon of mass destruction such as windows to enter india? What retribution woudl the UN take for such a serious offense??

    This could lead to War, for god's sake, it'd be like bombing iraq for taking kuwait's oil in an attempt to reclaim their own backyard and daring to stay after successfully conquering it.

    *sighs* sorry, almost forgot, the US has the UN Pussy whipped, we can send weapons of mass destruction such as windows to india without fear.