Rant

I’ve been using KDE for a while now, probably 9yrs. I’ve also been an early adopter of KDE 4.x. While KDE 4 is still far way behind in proving its worth of the radical core changes it made (take for example: Nepomuk, Strigi, Phonon, Decibel - I still wonder when they are going to be ready for the user), I still find KDE apps far far ahead of GNOME.

Probably, many would disagree. Possibly, they might flame me too.I mean everyone supports GNOME as the default - Red Hat/Novell/Ubuntu. And I always wonder WHY.

Sometimes things can be so interesting.

Yesterday midnight, after my colleague finished dinner from my place, immediately called me back that he was:

• Hit by an Auto-wallah
  And
• The Auto-wallah was drunk
• Didn’t have any identification in the auto.
• Instread was demanding money from my colleague.

So trying to sort out matters we moved to the near by police station and let the police-Gentle-man know that he was hit by a drunk auto-wallah.
The actions of the police-Gentle-man are what were more interesting than anything else. It really shows how much of faith one can have in our legal system.
And how much of value do people like us have, here, when our law makers and law-care-takers act such..

World Class Company - Third Class Ethics

Well!! After almost around 3 months after my exit from my previous employer ( Dell R &D Center, Bangalore - India), I’ve now had some time to rant about the experiences I had.

Hereforth, unless explicitly mentioned, When Dell is quoted, I mean as **Dell R &D Center, Bangalore - India, **and not any other Dell facility because it is not fair for me to comment about the other centers since I ’ve not worked there.

Yes, that’s rightly mentioned in the title. I’m not a fucking good speaker but this link might be good enough for explanations on why ESR and his open source fundas are shit.

Follow the facts, not the hype.

Free Software has always been about user rights and RMS has done great job.
For me personally, it’s been FSF because of which today what I am. Being a dumb chap from a rural town in a rural state of India and born in a complete business family, I had never dreamt of becoming a computer professional anyway. It was FSF and RMS’ idealisms that brought me today to where I am.