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Indian President Advises Open Source Approach
geo_2677 writes "The Indian President Dr. A Kalam has advised defense scientists to go for open-source software for software security, rather than be stuck with insecure proprietary software. Being a scientist himself, he surely knows what's good for his country." Speaking at the Indian Navy's Weapons and Electronic System Engineering Establishment, Kalam argued: "Open source codes can easily introduce the users to build security algorithms in the system without the dependence of proprietary platforms", though continues: "We should take maximum care to ensure that our solution is unique to protect our own defence security solutions implemented on open platforms." We previously reported on Richard Stallman's meeting with Dr. Kalam earlier this year.
Please explain.
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Uh oh. Somebody needs to get a visit from Bruce Schneier next! I suspect that his proposed unique solution would be better off if it was Open Sourced for peer review.
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I thought that said Indianan predident. I was about to start planning my campaign for Viceroy of Georgia.
At the very least, he should have publicly decried open source as an anti-Hindu plot. Pakistan would jump on the bandwagon immediately.
Bill Gates: I am here to let you know that we are prepared to slash prices to keep you as a customer.
President Dr. A Kalam: Thank you! Come again!
Bill Gates: But you haven't bought anything?
President Dr. A Kalam: Thank you! Come again!
At least the tech support will be a local call for them...
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Okay, I just have to ask... what is condensed water? Is it like condensed milk; Water with most of the water taken out?
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"AFAIK, Prime Ministers have always been used in Monarchies instead of democracies. So I'm a bit confused here..." :-/ ---- huh??? I am from czech REPUBLIC (not monarchy) and WE have prime minister. well we do not have just now because the government resigned this week but we usually have.
SHE does throw dice.
Contribute a million dollars to his campaign fund and he'll give Richard Stallman a lapdance, if you ask him to.
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If Pakistan wanted to perform a "first strike" operation, all they would need to do is submit a kernel patch and that would cause all of the Indian weapons to recompile their Linux kernel. Especially if they are running Gentoo, they could be busy for weeks.
I guess God made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
I though the lapdances were $10,000... Dangit!
"Piter, too, is dead."