On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 13:35 +0530, 0 wrote: > > > > we have already had a thread that open source is nothing but > communism. > > Actually if one looks at the tenets of christianity, one sees that > 'help > > your neighbour' is the key, and anyone who has read Stallman will > find > > that it is one of his favourite quotes - this coupled with the fact > that > > there are a huge number of Christian distros (each with it's own > BDFL - > > which most hindu distros do not have) it is clear that open source > is > > Christian. > > Lol, An interesting argument. As true as it is, at least the idea of > open source can be related to Hinduism, from the perspective of being > open and letting anyone modify the original work.
now to add some ghee to the flame - as many of you will know the GSOC mentor's list has a hot discussion going regarding widespread cheating in GC-IN - including the interesting information that 80% of the cheaters are Indians. There have even been suggestions that *all* Indians be banned from GC-IN and GSOC too. So what does this suggest to us about our culture and our understanding of open source culture? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
