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Stallman Goes to India
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."
..is when Stallman promised the president a totaly no-cost, no-strings-attached copy of GCC for every Indian citizen. Even Bill Gates couldn't match that incredibly generous offer!!
I didn't know the Indian government was hiring
Hi, Thank you for calling Dell technical support. My name is Richard. How may I help you?
They say a million monkeys could produce Shakespeare, just imagine what a billion Indians could do for Open Source projects...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
the President gave him some tips on what shampoo to use..after all both the President and Stallman a long long mane ;)
For the sake of open source diplomacy, I hope he didn't sing for the PM.
In any event, great to see open source has reached this level. Won't be long before managers have to justify their platform decisions again.
Hmm... I heard that bovine livestock was sacred in India... maybe this is why India respect him:
The Artwork of Jin Wicked || A portrait of Richard Stallman
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If this means the addition of a sitar track in "The Free Software Song", I'm all for it.
The site's not even slashdotted, (I hope) most of us can actually click a link (or type in the link, for IE users) and read the original article ourselves, without possibility of alteration from the karma whores.
Next the karma whores are going to start repeating the Slashdot headline and text "in case it ever gets slashdotted."
FULL TEXT OF SLASHDOT POSTING:
Stallman Goes to India
Posted by michael on Monday February 02, @02:33AM
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."
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can I have my +5 informative now?
I know it shouldn't be funny, but who didn't give a little giggle when they read the name, "Sandeep Dikshit"?
has no one else noticed the surname of the author?
By Sandeep Dikshit
I would almost say a this is a troll article if it wasn't so positive
Rus
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The theory that "a million monkeys with typewriters will eventually produce something intelligent" is age-old. And, as we now know, wrong.
The Internet has conclusively disproven it.
And, this is not a troll but based on my experience, a billion Indians with telephones have yet to produce an intelligible tech support call.
But then again, the same goes for Texans/Irish/Germans/...
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
These hairy commie bastards are always up to something!
They are Native Americans!
In other news, the Indian president announced that they'll from now on will go by the name GNU/India.
it's better than Dikdeep Sandshit.
I prefer "GLOSS" (Gratis, Libre...") as a term because "Libre" is redundant after "Free".
A friend of mine prefers "FOS" because "Open-sourced" is a single concept and doesn't warrant two capitals there.
My uncle prefers "fucking hippie software".
To each their own. Don't come a-preachin' the "correct" form, buddy.
RMS outsourced to India? OMG, what times we have to live in...
RMS got a little mixed up about India. He thought the Gnu was holy instead of the cow.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
He is going to outsource the GNU Project to India!
aaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
first our jobs, now our free software guru...
Liberty uber alles.
1. Stallman convinces Indian government to use GPL. Specifically, gcc.
2. Stallman smirks as he adds trojan horse to gcc. "Those Indians will never look at the code. Besides, my trojan horse is so obfuscated, they'll never find it!"
3. Indians use gcc to develop code for outsourcing contracts. Software works fine for a while.
4. In six months, software across America goes haywire. "Why oh why did we ever think outsourcing was so great?" sob the executives.
--Rob
Towards the Singularity.
So not only do we have to worry about getting our real jobs shipped overseas, but also our open source development as well! Won't there be anything left for an american techie?
-3Suns
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