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India Eyeing Its Own Open Source Licence
Guru Goo writes "Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology,Mumbai has begun an effort to create an open-source license that will let programmers share ideas while also letting them retain the rights to their own software modifications.The license will likely function much like the Berkeley Software Distribution or the
MIT License programs, he added. The number of open-source licenses has exploded, leaving many in the community miffed. But Phatak's proposal comes with the power of numbers. India's 1,750 colleges with computer science and electrical engineering degrees admit about 250,000 students a year. Combined with the outsourcing boom, that makes India one of the major centers for software development.
While the collaboration between academia and industry in india is not as pervasive as in the U.S., it is growing."
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I don't give a turd what anybody says, Revenge of the Sith is awesome. I mean, it's no The Empire Strikes Back, but it's every bit as good as anything Lucas did after Return of the Jedi. Attack of the Clones kicks ass too, but nobody saw it because it was his first movie after The Phantom Menace, which sucked petrefied testicles. That, and because the cover had jedis, which is just fucking gross.
Sounds Klingon.