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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."

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  1. what sealed the deal.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..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!!

    1. Re:what sealed the deal.. by NonSequor · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bill Gates offered them a set of steak knives but for some reason they turned down the offer.

      --
      My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
    2. Re:what sealed the deal.. by gid13 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actual conversation between the lead singer of my band and his overly Christian aunt:

      "Holy cow!"
      "Cows aren't holy, Mike."
      "In India they are."
      "Well, they're wrong."

      What does this have to do with software, you ask? Uh... Well... Christians try to bind everyone to Christianity and Microsoft tries to bind everyone to Windows. Yeah. Think about it. :)

    3. Re:what sealed the deal.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Would that be Big Indian or Little Indian ?

    4. Re:what sealed the deal.. by MountainMan101 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You wouldn't believe how silly I felt when I realised that it wasn't an autobiography.

  2. Wow... by mgebbers · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't know the Indian government was hiring

  3. Was Richard in need of a job? by ryen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi, Thank you for calling Dell technical support. My name is Richard. How may I help you?

  4. Maybe.. by xzap · · Score: 4, Funny

    the President gave him some tips on what shampoo to use..after all both the President and Stallman a long long mane ;)

  5. All I have to say is by kurosawdust · · Score: 5, Funny

    If this means the addition of a sitar track in "The Free Software Song", I'm all for it.

  6. Re:Full text by gasgesgos · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  7. stop calling them Indians! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are Native Americans!

  8. GNU/India by freedom_leffo · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, the Indian president announced that they'll from now on will go by the name GNU/India.

  9. geez by msouth · · Score: 3, Funny

    first our jobs, now our free software guru...

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    Liberty uber alles.