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96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore

Posted by timothy on from the bring-no-doz dept.

nileshch writes "The ongoing community-driven Linux Bangalore 2003 is upto a record of sorts. There are, hold your breath, 96 scheduled talks. That's about 96 hours of open-source talk in three days! The first day with 30 talks is already over with star speakers like Nat Friedman, Miguel De Icaza and Sirtaj Singh Kang enthralling the audience with their refreshing perspectives on Linux and Open Source. Rasmus Lerdorf and Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! Inc, amongst others, are also scheduled to talk at the event."

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  1. Weird place to have it by Pingular · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You don't really see Bangalore as being the Capital of Open Source, I would have thought a more appropriate place would be Finland.

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    1. Re:Weird place to have it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      "You don't really see Bangalore as being the Capital of Open Source, I would have thought a more appropriate place would be Finland."

      Why? The person who wrote most of the open-source operating system was born in america.

  2. Dont fear the curry by dankdirk77 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hear whining from people all the time about jobs going to India, but news like this I hope can make at least the real slashdot crowd aware of the good going on there.

    India is a natural ally of the united states because it is one of the few stable democracies in the region. The people are diverse, smart, conservative, and could potentially join us with japan as the new rulers of the world.

    May open source flourish in that country!!!

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    1. Re:Dont fear the curry by Copley · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Agreed... Everytime the topics of Indian software / service centres / whatever come up (and it's more and more often these days), comments appear which seem to imply that the products supplied will inherently be 2nd rate... Does anyone have any evidence to base this on?! Just because products is not coming from the good ol' US of A doesn't necessarily mean it's crap!

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    2. Re:Dont fear the curry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Yes!, continue to believe that, just like Japonese made steel sucks, and Chinese manufactured goods suck, and how all heavy industrial products from Korea suck.

  3. Re:no thanks buddha man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > I'd prefer the U.S. be the ONLY ruler of teh world.

    Exactly! how else are we going to break international laws and continue to piss off the rest of the world?

    > As far as India is concerned, I wouldn't want to live a day in that third-world shit hole.

    Yeah! Some places in India don't even have running water, like some places in Tennessee! Shitholes!