Re: Congrats to Nagendra VU2CLN

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:29:18AM -0800, Nagendra, VU2CLN wrote:
> > http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~pyang/base/allyourbase.swf
> 
> hmm...what is it suppose to mean, I only see a nut trying to spread some
> crazy propaganda called base....or is this only for USofA ? as I could
> get the entire picture about base ?
> 

It's a music video - sort of MTV style. You need a shockwave
compatible browser. It allegedly spread like wild fire on many
mailing lists and free websites like nbci.com and angelfire deleted
them from their servers because of the bandwidth hog.

> > http://www.angelfire.com/geek/rms/
> comeon people stop bickering/flaming over license and do some REAL work
> for a change and contribute to the community,

You should watch the video first and then you'll get the full context.
If you can't, consider this an artistic expression - sort of an 
RK Laxman's cartoon.

> I don't see even a dozen
> people active from india on the OpenSource/Linux Authoring side anywhere

Show a way to make money and see the difference :)

> ? , when somebody here(ReadersDigest) came searching for names we
> couldn't find atleast one(or few) guy who is a resident of india and was
> doing something serious!

Get the cost of bandwidth down and get the government to pay for a 
10 year graduate course and a decent standard of living and things
will change :) This is what it's like in much of socialist Europe,
including Finland.

> I don't care to whome my code belogs, as longs as it's opensource and I
> can have look/mod some years from now it ok.

Sure, you can achieve these goals using many less restrictive licenses. 

> I am just proud to be one of
> the few opensource authors here :-)

Way to go!

	-Arun