An answer from LIG, where KG's mail was cross posted.
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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [LIG] Indian Prez uses non-free sw Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:14:44 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian linux@frodo.hserus.net Reply-To: linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net To: linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net References: 20040117183234.M49609@tug.org.in
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:46:32PM -0500, KG Kumar wrote:
Since we're on the topic of hypocrisy (VS and Windows on his laptop), it might interest people to know that Abdul Kalam, India's president, so famous for apparently having ticked off Bill G. and advocating free software for countries like India, uses non-free software, incl. MS PowerPoint. See http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/ict.pps. and http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/FICCI.pps.
You don't have to be a GNU zealot in order to tick off Bill Gates
Do not give importance to such emails. -ab
,----[ Rajkumar S s_raj@flashmail.com ] | An answer from LIG, where KG's mail was cross posted. | | raj `----
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [LIG] Indian Prez uses non-free sw Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:14:44 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian linux@frodo.hserus.net Reply-To: linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net To: linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net References: 20040117183234.M49609@tug.org.in
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:46:32PM -0500, KG Kumar wrote:
Since we're on the topic of hypocrisy (VS and Windows on his laptop), it might interest people to know that Abdul Kalam, India's president, so famous for apparently having ticked off Bill G. and advocating free software for countries like India, uses non-free software, incl. MS PowerPoint. See http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/ict.pps. and http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/FICCI.pps.
You don't have to be a GNU zealot in order to tick off Bill Gates
Someone cited:
jaharkes@ravel:/usr/src$ mv linux Gnu/Linux mv: cannot move `linux' to `Gnu/Linux': No such file or directory jaharkes @ cs . cmu.edu in reply to RMS on linux.kernel
# mkdir Gnu # mkdir Gnu/Linux # mv linux Gnu/Linux
Don't stupidly try to create or move Linux before creating Gnu.
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