President Of India Advocates OSS

cOdEgUru writes "I am sure this is a first. The President of India has urged Indian IT Professionals to develop and specialise in OSS rather than Windows. To be noted is that he made the speech (look for the "Think Different" section) at the famous Indian Institute of Information Technology (India's foremost academic institution equivalent to MIT). Also he reminisces that his meeting with Mr.Gates were difficult due to differing views concerning OSS and Security. What should be noted about him is that he is not a politician, but a scientist and an independent thinker foremost."

Great

[gexen]

Great for India. This is a great thing. If only the Indian food place near me would open source the recipe for Chicken Tika Mahkani.

Indian president is a technocrat..

[heytal]

Slashdot readers may remember that APJ Abdul Kalam, the President of India, is a scientist. He has worked towards developing missiles and the nuclear research of India. He is indeed a rocket scientist.

true wisdom.

[sweeney37]

Mohandas Gandhi once said:
Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

It's obvious Ghandi would of never used Microsoft.

Mike

Re:Great

[Flabby Boohoo]

I just found a tool [google.com] that can answer most questions like that... don't tell anyone, it'll be our little secret!

presidentofindia.nic.in runs IIS on Win2k

[hotchai]

Oh the irony!

CalTech

[sxltrex]

To be noted is that he made the speech (look for the "Think Different" section) at the famous Indian Institute of Information Technology (India's foremost academic institution equivalent to MIT).

Huh. And I always thought India's foremost academic institution was CalTech--Calcutta Technical Institute!

:-)

Whoa.......

[Anonymous Coward]

"What should be noted about him is that he is not a politician, but a scientist and an independent thinker foremost." "

Whoa. Electing a thinker. What a bizarre concept.

Those whacky Indians. Let's rain some "Freedom" down on their asses.

Re:Microsoft

[fussman]

Attention all Microsoft Employees: WORK HARDER!!!

Re:Okay, It's time for another tech boom

[Timesprout]

1 000 000 000 million people worldwide using an Os that isn't Windows

Fuck I better start impregnating women like crazy if we are going to hit those numbers, but if thats what it takes to beat MS I am prepared to suffer and do it. Girls please form an orderly queue outside my door. Preferably supermodels/fit actresses types to the front.

Re:Indian president is a technocrat..

[Anonymous Coward]

This is embarrassing actually. We're not even sure Bush can read without some help sounding-out the big words...

Re:true wisdom.

[Alsee]

design nuclear missiles

Well India needs to some sort of deterrent against Microsoft.

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Re:He talked to BillG about opensource..

[Eagle7]

Thank you... I am now less intelligent as a result of having read that comment.

Re:In India

[nathanh]

I guess someone as smug, smart and wordly as you are would know all about India's woes.

India's woes? I was insulting Americans. I guess what they say about Americans is true; you guys really can't detect sarcasm without a laugh track.

I'm also glad to see that you have a second account so you can mod yourself up.

Haha, I don't have a second account. I guess there are simply people out there who know what sarcasm is.

Re:In India

[nathanh]

You must not be an American or you would realize that not all of us are so stereotypical. As with all countries we are as diversified as the next, as argumentative and debative of our governments role, and have the uneducated along with the educated, so please, do not lump us all into a simplistic catagory.

It really detracts from a joke if you have to explain it, but I'm getting hate mail so I guess I'll have to spell this one out.

For all the really slow people out there, I'm using something called S-A-R-C-A-S-M. When that nitwit "r0xah" claimed that Indians are trying to "break free of poverty" - possibly the stupidest thing I've heard all year - I used S-A-R-C-A-S-M to highlight the ignorant claim. You see, what I did was turn the stereotype around and claim that Americans are all redneck bigots just like r0xah.

Now I realise that you have a gun-toting monkey for a president so perhaps some of you yanks took me too seriously. With somebody like that in power you can be forgiven for getting a tad defensive. I forgive you all! At least a few moderators seemed to get the joke; there might be hope for the rest of you yanks, yet!

Re:In India

[nathanh]

u have greatly offended me...

If you are an American than "huzzah, that's another point for the home team". Pints all 'round! Drinks are on me!

Re:In India

[pmz]

...I'm using something called S-A-R-C-A-S-M.

I've gotten bitten by this before. Using sarcasm on Slashdot without using appropriate sarcasm markup tags can be dangerous. Slashdot readers range in density from fluffy air to depleted uranium, with the distribution weighted heavily to either extreme.

Now I realise that you have a gun-toting monkey for a president...

Please, don't offend the monkey! He's sensitive, you know.

Re:In India

[$rtbl_this]

If you get two candidates with similar skills, one who worked at Microsoft and one who is maintainer of some Linux kernel driver, who would you hire?

Depends on which one gives the best head.

I feel bad now...

[morgajel]

The President of India is advocating opensource.

I don't even think our president knows what opensource is.
You ask Bush what he thinks about opensource and I'm sure he'll go into a story of why they're bad and how he got opensource once from kissing a farm animal.

In all seriousness, I think this is a very good thing. Last time I checked, India had a larger population than wyoming. If their tech school starts churning out linux guys, their country will eventually turn to linux, and there will be much rejoicing

that would make me happy.

Re:Whoa.......

[Vegan Pagan]

Sorry, England already did it.