[ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

[Manu Garg]

On 8/16/06, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> My observation is that most of these people are simple-minded ignorant
> >> characters who need someone to 'drill' the facts into their head.
>
> > This statement comes as a surprise from you. Why is everybody expected
> > to know about gnu or freedom (software) when everyone is not from the
> > computer software field and has switched over from windows to linux as
> > an operating system only. Ideologies take time to get induced and
> > spread.
>
> Hehehehe... Arey I have seen Computer Science & Engineering majors and
> their teachers make such 'mistakes' or even graver ones. People of
> this category often talk about GCC, GNOME, GRUB, BASH, blah blah...
> without ever realising that GNU does have something to do with it. I
> have a guy who keeps chasing me to fix some issue with his GRUB, but I
> bet he has no idea about the GPL or RMS.
>
> Talking about the common man, many of them are quite familiar about
> Linux, but no inkling about GNU. They think Linus Torvalds is this
> amazing programmer, and I would not be suprised if they said "Hacker
> to Ankit Fadia hai bhai, yeh Richard Stallman koun hai?"
>
> This is sick, because if it was not for the GNU and its GPL then even
> the Linux kernel would not have here as it is today.
>
> Regards,
> Debarshi
> --
> "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.
> That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
>
>                                      -Jean Kerr
>
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I remember being part of this list once and I unsubscribed because of
non-sense people like Debarshi.

After all this bull-shit in this thread, I am again going off the
list. This list just talks about the politics. Grow up Debarshi et al.


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Manu Garg
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"Journey is the destination of the life."