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Transcript of Talk with Richard Stallman

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This is the transcript of the talk with Richard Stallman, the father of GNU in the background of the 4th International GPLv3 Conference being held at Bangalore where RMS is a prominent delegate. He answers questions related to GPLv3, DRM and a couple of other queries."

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  1. Richard Stallman or Bill Gates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quoted from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/15/the_bofh_q uestionnaire_how_geeky/
    2. You're locked in a room with Richard Stallman and Bill Gates and have only a gun with two bullets in it (which you normally secrete on your person in case you ever get locked in a room with Richard Stallman, Bill Gates, etc). They both clear their throats to speak. What do you do?

    A. Shoot Bill, hoping he hasn't got a tablet device (or the XP Security Vulnerability notes) crammed up his blazer
    B. Shoot Richard, hoping he hasn't got the notes for his speech in front of his heart
    C. Shoot Richard AND Bill and take your chances
    D. Shoot yourself, twice, for getting into such a contrived situation

  2. India and Open Source by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Informative
    FYI, President APJ Kalam is quite literally a rocket scientist, who was formerly with the Defense Research and Development Organization. He's met with Richard Stallman a number of times to talk about OSS, particularly with it's importance to a developing country like India, and stressed it's importance to domestic software organizations a number of times.

    A collection of miscellaneous links about OSS developments in India.

    Indian President Advises Open Source Approach
    President Of India Advocates OSS
    Indian President Advises Open Source Approach
    Stallman Goes to India (and meets the President)
    and finally, more recently...
    Indian State Logs Microsoft Out

    I'm hoping to see more active participation in OSS development from India, as more of it's educated masses come online. Computer and internet usage has surged among the middle-class only in recent years, with improvement (albeit gradual) in infrastructure.

    --
    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  3. Re:Why is this posted... by curecollector · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because there's no gnu-linux.slashdot.org?

    *ducks*