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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."
GNAA Interviews CowboyNeal
by GNAA staff
UPDATE! UPDATE!
Since the original posting of this article there has been some doubts about authenticity of CowboyNeal. Rest assured, however, he was indeed the real CowboyNeal. We could tell by the smell coming from his pants.
On January 17 2004, select members of the GNAA interviewed CowboyNeal on IRC channel #caoine at irc.caoine.org.
We will be right back after this commercial break!
According to Google Zeitgeist, there are about 80% of Internet Explorer 6 users. The only platform supporting Internet Explorer 6 is, of course, Microsoft Windows. These statistics are consistent with the earlier presented graphs of the operating systems used to access Google, with the Windows family consistently taking the top 3 ranks. Out of remaining 20%, the split is even between MSIE 5.5, MSIE 5.0, both Windows-only browsers. Netscape 5.x (including Mozilla) counts for only a measly 5% of browsers used to access Google. As you can see from the graph, this sample was calculated starting from March 2001 until September 2003.
According to Google Zeitgeist, there are about 80% of Internet Explorer 6 users. The only platform supporting Internet Explorer 6 is, of course, Microsoft Windows. These statistics are consistent with the earlier presented graphs of the operating systems used to access Google, with the Windows family consistently taking the top 3 ranks. Out of remaining 20%, the split is even between MSIE 5.5, MSIE 5.0, both Windows-only browsers. Netscape 5.x (including Mozilla) counts for only a measly 5% of browsers used to access Google. As you can see from the graph, this sample was calculated starting from March 2001 until September 2003.
And now we return to our scheduled broadcast...
The following are select portions of the chat transcript kept by official GNAA stenographer (and Ringmusculaturis II Leader), Captain B. Dick
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GNAA Member AbdullaH introduces himself to CowboyNeal
[5:09:26] AbdullaH: Hello, Sir! My name is Abdullah Ihram Mohammad Bin Zular Krokar Tehroham Kumr, I am a TERRORIST. My father was on the first plane that crashed in the World Tarde Center. I get a boner every time CNN plays that tape. If you wish to help me in my quest for WORLD SLAVERY, please purchase a kalashnikov at your nearest kalashnikov store and HELP ME KILL ALL AMERICANS!
[5:09:29] CowboyNeal: if this is part of that jihad I keep hearing about, it's a pretty fucking lame part of it
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CowboyNeal is questioned about his feelings towards civil rights; uses both the N, and K-words
[5:21:11] timecop: CowboyNeal: do you have something against niggers?
[5:21:24] CowboyNeal: nay, some of best friends are nigs
[5:23:47] CowboyNeal: like all my kike friends too?
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GNAA Member timecop inquires about Slashdot moderation policies. CowboyNeal admits to cleaning peoples' shit up for a living.
[5:16:04] timecop: I have a problem with my slashdot account
[5:16:09] timecop: it has Karma: excellent
[5:16:10] timecop: but I post at -1
[5:16:12] timecop: WHAT THE FUCK?!
[5:16:19] CowboyNeal: yeah, sucks, don't it?
[5:16:26] CaptBDick: wow that can happen?
[5:16:41] timecop: CowboyNeal: mind to explain what the FUCK is going on?
[5:17:00] CowboyNeal: you got downmodded into oblivion at least once, and there's no second chances
[5:17:17] timecop: no, i got a better theory
[5:17:35] timecop: some nazis downmodded a bunch of my comments and set a flag to fuck all my posts
[5:17:41] timecop: because someone doesnt agree with my OPINIONS
[5:18:05] Cowb
What is RMS opinion on outsourcing ?
And what about the role of OSS in this setting ?
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
Have you seen the condition of the Ganges lately? Oh wait, it would still improve his BO... nevermind me...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
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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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I read all your posts,
;-)
;-)
:-( :-( :-( 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.
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.
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.