BANGALORE: The bustling, overcrowded gullies of Sudarshan Layout’s slum settlement played host to a very high-profile visitor on Saturday afternoon. American software freedom activist, and founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation Richard Matthew Stallman, fondly known as RMS, sat down to tea and interacted with children and volunteers at the Ambedkar Community Computing Centre.
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RMS visit to Bangalore
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Friday I left my office as soon as my friend Renukaprasad told me to pick RMS from an auditorium near Reserve Bank of India, where he was listening to a live concert. I took an auto and went to meet Renukaprasad who was there with him. I joined RMS and Dora for the concert. He was loving the Indian classical dance and music. After the concert we moved to the house where he was staying.
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"Today RMS visited Bangalore again. This is for the first time I am seeing him. I am bit tired after today's programs. So, I will try to provide a brief summary of the program. I hope you know what RMS will be talking about, so I am not going to those details :) ..."
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NO to Microsoft-VTU Deal
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... This is a part of the hidden agenda of Microsoft to challenge the growth of free software development in India. An institution as prestigious as VTU should not Lock-In to a vendor like Microsoft and modify its curriculum based on the interests of Microsoft.
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"Richard.M.Stallman (RMS), the founder of Free Software Foundation, will be in Bangalore from 12th to 14th (tentative) December 2008. Following this, FSUG Bangalore along with RV College of Engineering has plans to organize a set of events and would like to hear from Free Software enthusiasts around in Bangalore about various possibilities of their participation during this occasion..."
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Hacking Hands On - The Story
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We then spoke about why people in general and students in particular should
contribute to Free Software and what are its values and advantages. Then we
gave a brief overview of what we had planned for the day. Later we took each
of those topics in detail and covered it in sufficient depth I feel. We described
about concepts of Revision Control System, Bug Trackers, other development
25th anniversary of GNU Project at RVCE, Bangalore, India
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25th anniversary of GNU Project at RVCE,Bangalore , Translation of Selected Essays of RMS in Kannada and GNU + Linux Installation Fest conducted on 27th September 2008 at RVCE , Bangalore
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Bangaloreans Say No to Software Patents
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On 23rd August, 2008, a group of Bangaloreans is to gather outside Town Hall to protest software Patents under the aegis of Free Software Users Group, Bangalore at 5.30 PM.
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"The Free Software User’s Group, Bangalore is co-ordinating a campaign to 'Say No To Software Patents' in India ..."
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