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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.
    1. Re:An Open Letter... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      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. True. 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. Damn straight. I hate having to click F3 in gnome and typing & . So much harder than using my mouse to click Start->Programs->Software->Software Name ... Just because you are too stupid to use it, doesn't mean it sucks. 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. Ofcourse, good code isn't everything, all it does it make the software run and make sure that the system is secure. That very statement that "Code isn not everything" shows your ignorance. And efficiency? You are an idiot if you think MS is more efficient. In fact, I'd say you are beyond idiot. As for intelligence in software, thats very relative. I am glad Linux isn't "intelligent" enough to service slobs like you who don't want to learn. All they want to do is use their petty chat clients and download MP3's from Kazaa. You are pathetic. Mind you, I am not advocating difficult use under the pretext that "people should learn". I am merely against spoon feeding lazy fucks like yourself. Linux is pretty smart for an average persons needs. Try making key bindings from the desktop in Windows.. oh thats right, you cannot. Try making soft/hard links to different files and directories in MS so they all appear seamlessly integrated under one main directory to the user. Oh thats right, you cannot. Try using tabbed browsing in IE as opposed to opening 8 different windows. Oh thats right, you cannot. Try spreading your work across different desktops to make it easier to view data and work on it. Oh thats right, you cannot do that in Windows right now (maybe in longhorn...) I could go on for a looonnggg time but I'd rather not. 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. Linux IS a better product. Judging from your statements, it seems you are too stupid to comprehend this. Yes, Linux *may*, in some cases take slightly longer to learn. But once learnt, it is far far better than the Microsoft counterpart. I can only conclude that A: You are too retarded to be anything more than a mouse clicker. B: You work for Microsoft as a programmer. However, I doubt B since even Microsoft programmers would have some intelligence... I'm tired, and that's all I'm going to say. Time to go back to chatting it up on instant messenger. Thats the only intelligent thing you have said. Go. Please, just go. You are closed minded, lazy and stupid. You do not belong on here. Go back to your AIM as "Stud69" and impress little girls (or guys, whatever..). PS: Yes I am a zealot. And I say linux is easy to use because I truly believe so, not just because I want to bash MS. I have 3 computers and 1 laptop here. None of them run Windows, none have since more than 2 years. The laptop came pre-installed with windows which is still on the HD (never bothered removing since back in those days, family sometimes used it). But since the past 2 or so years, not once has anyone in my family booted it into Windows. Not even my 10 year old sister who took 3 days to learn basic Linux. Yes Open Office is still developing and a bit slow when starting up; but she prefers it far more than BSOD ridden MS OS, or pathetic MS Word which seems to crash for fun (Not to mention create 20 hidden .tmp files for each fucking file it opens, and leave the files there if it crashes).

  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. Doesn't the US get the code? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How come you third world Americans are accepting the Imperialism of India? YOUR tax dollars built MS, and now they are moving the IP to another nation?

  4. Hemos worked for Enron! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Obviously, Hemos and CmdrTaco have tried to cover-up this story, because the last time I posted this, it was modded down to -1! The truth will eventually catch up with Hemos, CmdrTaco, and Slashdot, just like it caught up with Enron. But it might take a lot longer without your help...

    He was buddies with Andrew Fastow in high school, where the two ran a small-time pondzi scheme that defrauded 31 of their former classmates and teachers of over $9200 in cash, valuables, and illegal drugs.

    Afer nearly seven months of operation, and only six weeks until their graduation, the law began to close in on the duo. To escape justice, Fastow convinced Hemos to perform fellatio on their high school principal, Steve Bucholtz.

    Hemos also performed fellatio on Fastow and Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda several times after the incident.

    In college, Hemos and Fastow founded Enron, and used the same tactics to expand their energy-trading business to a well-respected multi-national enterprise that operated in 38 states, 7 countries, and in Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's anus.

  5. That's fucked up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We should be dropping bombs and napalm on these sand niggers, not sending them source code. Bush would agree, and if you're not with us, then you are with the terrorists.

    Moslems are TRASH.

  6. 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.