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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. Outsourcing ? by Krapangor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is RMS opinion on outsourcing ?
    And what about the role of OSS in this setting ?

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  2. Re:what sealed the deal.. by marcello_dl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Christians try to bind everyone to Christianity...

    Unfortunately they - we - use utterly wrong methods.

    Sorry for being slightly OT, but Jesus did never coerce anyone into belief. I think that Faith shouldn't be experience in a competitive fashion. A Christian should make his own choices according to his faith and set an Example for others to freely follow.

    A famous example: "If people do not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave their town, as a testimony against them." (Luke 9:5 NIV)

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  3. Re:Restrictive? by AndrewHowe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I read all your posts,

    Respect.

    there is something you keep seeming to remain blind to.

    Uh-oh ;-)

    The point everyone else is missing is you never said you wanted the GPL to be changed. You just said its [more] restrictive. More restrictive than say the BSD or LGPL library. In that your original post is TRUE, and should be modded up.

    Yeah... I feel good... But I know there's bad shit coming up ;-)

    The point you continouly miss

    Here it comes...

    what you are paying with is your hard work, (sometimes quite a lot of it).

    Yeah.. let's call my contribution X.

    by not paying,

    Hey! Not so fast!

    you devalue my code

    Which is worth, I dunno, Y,...

    because now its not worth other GPL code, its only worth the actual work cycles it can do on my machine.

    :-( :-( :-( Dude, you had the beginnings of an argument there. But what was that? Work cycles? I'm actually pretty good at optimising stuff. I eat cycles for breakfast.

    Now AC (can I call you AC?) if you had read this thread you would have learned that I explicitly (i.e. about a fhuewfheuwillion times) said that I don't "steal" (whatever that means) GPL'd code. I respect the GPL, and diss it at the same time. That's how hoopy I am. Actually, hmm, looking at what you say, you maybe realise this. OK. So. You would realise that I understand that there are potential benefits from using GPL'd code. But that doesn't mean that it's fair that I should suddenly give away my millions of lines of code, in return for a small amount of GPL'd code. That's a hypothetical situation;. There is no GPL'd code I have my eye on. But if there were, do you see how I might find it a trifle unfair? To all those people going "you're sharing, and we're sharing too", consider that (a) most of the people you "share" with are leeches, and (b) there is a difference between one library, and a whole cubic buttload of code.