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Sun, Nov. 26th, 2006, 12:39 am
FOSS.in - day 2

Day two of the conference started with another decent breakfast, in the confines of our room. We actually left on time and reached on time too. The drive to the venue was pretty eventful, with Alok and me showing why we are the best when it comes to stupidity. Asbert meanwhile was laughing away to glory rocking the risckshaw.
After the first talk, I left the venue and went across the street to meet Ananth and Karthik. Ananth is doing his MSc in IISC while Karthik passed out a few months ago from IISC and is now working in TI. I got to remind myself why I enjoy their company so much. We discussed on topics varying from the Upanishads, the open source model applied to the scientific fraternity, the Goedel theorem applied to the brain and the business practices of Microsoft!
After lunch, we walked back to IISC chatting all the way, catching up with each other and remembering some good old times.
I resumed my presence at the conference after that. I attended the Debian BoF (Birds of a feather) and the KDE India BoF. Following that was a pretty good and entertaining panel discussion on "10 years of Linux in India".
After the days proceedings at the venue, some of the InfyLUG gang got together for dinner. Everyone seemed to have a common agenda, that of pulling Mahendra's leg. Sooo ... after an eventful day, I'm back at the hotel, where I'm greeted with a pleasant surprise. The Wifi is working! Hurray! I'll get down to some web browsing now, something I don't remember doing for a long long time.
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Mon, Nov. 27th, 2006 07:20 am (UTC)
(Anonymous)

What was the consensus on the business practices of Microsoft?
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Mon, Nov. 27th, 2006 08:35 am (UTC)
[info]adityag: Microsoft?

People didn't waste their time there worrying about Microsoft. There are other more important problems to be solved, and the focus was on these problems.
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Thu, Nov. 30th, 2006 05:13 am (UTC)
(Anonymous): Re: Microsoft?

Does it mean you consider Microsoft a problem? For its quality or for its business model, both or otherwise?
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Thu, Nov. 30th, 2006 06:37 am (UTC)
[info]adityag: Re: Microsoft?

Mainly because of their FUD campaigns. A few months ago, open source was 'unconstitutional'. Now they are selling it.
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Thu, Nov. 30th, 2006 08:01 am (UTC)
(Anonymous): Re: Microsoft?

Good point.

i think there is place for both open source and commercial closed source players. i don't think one or the other is a problem though. The customer decides what he wants. i know of many who would not be bothered by the 'freedom' of open source because its too technical/complicated for them. All they want is to use the software for its intended purpose, they don't want to change it and are not interested in its inner workings. i wouldn't call them morons either because they are top people in their own professions. Similarly i know of many who swear by open source and won't install/use anything that isn't in that category. Then, there are others, like Mac users. Customers choose what they want!

Cheers!
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