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Stallman Goes to India

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the exploring-outsourcing-next-version-of-gcc dept.

SureshD writes "The Hindu is reporting on a 40 minute long meeting between Richard Stallman and the Indian President - Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. After the interview, RMS said that the President was 'receptive' to his views that development of software should be seen as a political and social issue and not just from the technological point of view. Interestingly, the article mentions that the President had prepared for the meeting by downloading and reading Stallman's biography (Free as in Freedom) from the Internet."

4 of 586 comments (clear)

  1. Re:President not head of government by cujo_1111 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As opposed to the American presidential system where the president is an elected dictator?

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  2. Re:Help me Slashdot. by azzy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No one would want to use your software as it would be full of bugs from mistaken use of '=' when you meant to use '=='. So don't worry about it.

  3. The President of India by lowmagnet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is not only a doctor, but he actually can read? That's a step up from President Bush.

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  4. Re:What's the deal? by AndrewHowe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm getting into this thread late

    Clearly, as you then go on to say:-

    if you don't like the GPL license, *don't use it.*

    Which I have already covered. Thanks anyway.

    Newsflash, pal: There's nothing for me to get over, as I don't hold the position you think I do. And you think I'm in fairyland.

    I have nothing against contributing back - on fair terms.

    I'm not angry.

    Oh look, you said it again "don't use GPL'd code". Twice in the same post. After you have been told multiple times that I don't use it anyway. If you want to continue arguing with me, I'm going to require you to read the rest of the thread first, OK?

    Oh, I have no money or talent now. Hehehe! It gets better. "absolutely nothing back" - another misrepresentation of my position.