[BangPypers] The myth of free software

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Ridiculous is the right word not hilarious, when  you make such
> > generalisation, and spins new theories
> >
>
> Thanks for pointing out how ridiculous what I said was, and I am glad you
> understood what I was talking about. Thanks Again.
>

@Santosh: you need some humility when you talk in forums to gather respect
for your views.
(i dont wanna sound like a Bigdaddy here, but you need to show some maturity
in your claims/theories).
Bangpypers has some of the best pythonistas in India and people are watching
you.
Most of your assertions do not have any valid logic behind it; FOSS/OSS has
helped many institutions a lot - you
may want to check out  lugc(chennai lug) where some of the volunteers have
helped many colleges
install Linux and impart trainings to sysadmins etc and made the community
stronger.

OSS doesnt mean you have to do a commit; i never did a commit in the Python
source code, but had looked
at many important pieces in the peephole optimization code, and understood
things. This was a turning point in
my career as i got into something totally different than what i do in my day
job. I learnt a lot and also taught some;
hanging around IRC is also a great way to help the community.

Btw, i liked your theory of inverse-square-rule ;)  but i dont subscribe to
it fully.

-V