[Reader-list] Richard Stallman in Calcutta

[Yogesh Girdhar]

Oh and i forgot..
I am also in the process of helping start a inter-university
collaborative environment to develop low cost medical instrucments for
india. It will all be developed under GPL license. This is in
collaboration with NPL(National Physical Lab.) and AIIMS. Website
should be coming up shortly as it is just starting. So any help with
this will also be welcome.
-yogi



> Well I am currently working on some video sharing software. It will
> hopefully be released under some type of free software license  when
> its in a mature enough state
>
> Before this i have worked on vtk (www.vtk.org), which is a free
> toolkit for building visualization software.
>
> so yes please refer willing students to me if they would like to work
> on either one of the projects.
>
> -yogi
>
>
> On 8/21/06, Pankaj kaushal <penguinhead at linux-delhi.org> wrote:
> > Hello Yogi,
> >
> > Yogi wrote:
> > > I am really surprised by the fact that despite all this noise about India and its large number
> > > of programmers; open source movement in india is non-existant.
> > > This is a sign that all these programmer arenothing more than coding
> > monkeys..
> > > who do not understand anything more than whats immediately before their eyes.
> > > Even some of my so called smart IIT friends still think that Microsoft is the greatest
> >
> > I think that your understanding of "Open source" and "Free software" and
> > "open source movement in India" is grossly misinformed.
> >
> > I think that "IIT friends" and "Software programmers" are not
> > responsible for writing software for you. If someone writes code for a
> > company to money and does not want to write free software, it does not
> > make him a coding monkey. It just makes him a person with a different
> > opinion.
> >
> > > thing which has happened to india, because they brought computing the
> > > common people... but I ask them ... at whatcost? A cage is a cage...
> > > even if its made out of gold. I think Indian government needs to ban
> > > the use of proprietary software from all educational institutes.
> >
> > Bravo! I think you need to get a life, an education and better get a
> > brain while you're at it.
> >
> > PS: Please send a list of all free software projects that you contribute
> > to, I will be more than happy to refer willing students.
> >
> > P.
> > --
> > Wir wollen dass ihr uns alles glaubt.
> >
>