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President Of India Advocates OSS
cOdEgUru writes "I am sure this is a first. The President of India has urged Indian IT Professionals to develop and specialise in OSS rather than Windows. To be noted is that he made the speech (look for the "Think Different" section) at the famous Indian Institute of Information Technology (India's foremost academic institution equivalent to MIT). Also he reminisces that his meeting with Mr.Gates were difficult due to differing views concerning OSS and Security. What should be noted about him is that he is not a politician, but a scientist and an independent thinker foremost."
That country is nothing more than a giant sweatshop for the rich countries, for God's sake, they have to eat rats to keep the rat population down. A country that bad would want to use shitty OSS.
what happens when countries with M$ systems are not able to interoperate with OSS systems? As we watch corporations continue to manipulate governments and essentially own the future of citizens through no-bid contracts and the like, will it eventually come to a head? You think you have a senator - what you have is a corporate liason.
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RKauffman s.e.c.r.e.t.m.e.d.i.a.g.r.o.u.p
I'm always looking for examples to present to my boss to switch to OSS. My company is mostly in the US. Unfortunately even the recommendation of a country's president isn't enough to persuade them to even look at OSS. While I see lots of news of other countries actively switching to Microsoft's alternatives, the change is still extremely slow in the US. I think even when the rest of the world is mostly on OSS the US will be the most stubborn in letting it become the majority. But it'll take world pressure (the global market) to get a truely major shift to OSS in the US.
Now if President Bush recommended OSS in a speech in the US it would only solidify Microsoft's dominance.
Developers: We can use your help.
You're an idiot.
And no pesky human rights to worry about. An endless supply of labour so cheap it borders on slavery.
Yes, india is a wonderful place indeed.
Have you been there? When you need a bulletproof taxi and a bodyguard to get you to your hotel you realize what a shithole country it really is.
Wow. A four-digit-id troll! I didn't think such a thing existed. I guess someone as smug, smart and wordly as you are would know all about India's woes. We all know the great things that have come out of Australia. I'm also glad to see that you have a second account so you can mod yourself up. Well I will hopefully be able to take care of that in Metamod.
G-day mate.
Oh, come on. Be an adult. The President no country would intentionally piss off a major employer like Microsoft. He's probably just angry because Microsoft wouldn't play ball, and engage in graft with Indian politicians. U.S. corporations are prohibited by law from offering bribes to foreign governments, which always places them at a competitive disadvantage when competing with European firms.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I will be nice when India becomes the domination force in OSS. Then my company will fire all the Americans and replace them with $10.00 a day Indians. Just like they are doing to our engineering dept. now
why dont you come out of your shithole cellar once in a while? or atleast watch the Discovery channel if you want to comment on other countries. Ignorant piece of shit.
I've seem plenty of sarcasms on Slashdot and maybe people don't get your sarcasm because it's a pretty shitty one?
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You are so fucking stupid it is scary .. ,one simply cannot judge anything or anyone.
According to you
If you don't fucking see a difference between some of the regimes out there and US then you are fucking sick and need to get out more.
Seriously.
> This is embarrassing actually. We're not even sure Bush can read without some help sounding-out the big words...
:)
Al Gore, is that you posting as AC?
No, what is embarassing is that a trollish childish insult gets modded up. All the qualities of President Bush nonwithstanding (this is not the thread to debate them), comparing him to India's president is among the dumber things you can do - in India, President doesn't hold political power, Prime Minister does. So they can stick anyone there, like a rocket scientist who doesn't need to be a politician. I fail to see any rocket scientists holding the Presidency in the USA in its entire history. Or any scientists, after B.F., for that matter.
P.S. If you're so fscking smart, how come you're not running for - and winning - the Oval Office?
P.S. BTW, ability to speak fluently is in no way related to intelligence. Whether Bush is smart or not, as I said, is not on-topic. However, for example, I can't speak much better than him even in my native language, and am probably even worse when speaking English, as I wasn't born here. Despite that, i'm pretty sure whoever that AC I replied to is, I'm lots better than him at math, and probably a lot of other sciences too. (First degree diploma in Russian national Math contest in my HS graduating year, for the doubters, and in top 60 in Putnam contest while being a sophomore in college - AFTER I stopped studying math seriously for 2 years
-DVK
"The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it"-R.A.Heinlein
:which would be highly benificial for OSS
I dont think so. India predominantly uses MS and personaly with the level of computer litracy, I dont see a great future for OSS atleast in India. Even the defence establishment uses MS.
Given the *level of competence* of Indian Programers, why doesnt any OSS stuff originate from there?