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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. Re:Power Shift by anandcp · · Score: 0, Troll

    US has AIDS, females who are penultimate of power, a Dubya for a Prez,huge land-owning Polluting Corporates and an Oil sector bent on destroying the environment. Ya, US is def. a wonderful place to live.

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  2. Re:That explains it! by C10H14N2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps because we've seen over a million jobs lost just after granting a roughly equal number of H1-B visas in one industry followed by our trade deficit doubling in less than two years. Yeah, that might be it.

    Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean no one is out to get you.

  3. Re:Freedom? Beer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    I wasn't aware that this was part of the philosophy.
    Then you don't know RMS' philosophy. He believes that software should be free. As in speech. As in beer. As in absolutely, positively, free. As in only hardware should be sold for a price. Yes, he's a proponent of the GPL; and yes, that license lets you charge for software licensed under it, but that was more of a capitulation than the cause. If RMS had his way, all software, from Linux to Windows, from AbiWord to MS Office, would be free as in beer.
  4. Re:Restrictive? by AndrewHowe · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK. Here's my code:-

    ++thingy;

    Now please provide me with a link to all of your code.

    Oh, and if it was already Open Source, it doesn't count.