[BangPypers] The myth of free software

[Santosh Rajan]

Hey, thanks for the good words, and I entirely agree with you. My humble
effort here is to try and put a mirror in the face of the entire Indian
software Industry. They need to look into the mirror and understand what is
going on.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Venkatraman S <venkat83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > Ridiculous is the right word not hilarious, when  you make such
> > > generalisation, and spins new theories
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for pointing out how ridiculous what I said was, and I am glad you
> > understood what I was talking about. Thanks Again.
> >
>
> @Santosh: you need some humility when you talk in forums to gather respect
> for your views.
> (i dont wanna sound like a Bigdaddy here, but you need to show some
> maturity
> in your claims/theories).
> Bangpypers has some of the best pythonistas in India and people are
> watching
> you.
> Most of your assertions do not have any valid logic behind it; FOSS/OSS has
> helped many institutions a lot - you
> may want to check out  lugc(chennai lug) where some of the volunteers have
> helped many colleges
> install Linux and impart trainings to sysadmins etc and made the community
> stronger.
>
> OSS doesnt mean you have to do a commit; i never did a commit in the Python
> source code, but had looked
> at many important pieces in the peephole optimization code, and understood
> things. This was a turning point in
> my career as i got into something totally different than what i do in my
> day
> job. I learnt a lot and also taught some;
> hanging around IRC is also a great way to help the community.
>
> Btw, i liked your theory of inverse-square-rule ;)  but i dont subscribe to
> it fully.
>
> -V
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