My presentation at FOSSCONF
I made a presentation on WordPress at FOSSCONF - the Conference of Free and Open Source Software conducted by Indian Linux Users’ Group Chennai and NRC-FOSS at Chennai, India on 2008-02-01.
Here is the certificate to this effect followed by the presentation:
You can view the presentation here:
Donate to Wikipedia, if you love yourself (who doesn’t)!
Wikipedia needs money: donate now.
What is “Wikipedia”, you ask? You sanctimonious moron, you have no business to dwell on the internet. Scoot, before my mother-in-law is launched on your way!
Wikipedia is one of humanity’s greatest information assets since open source software and the world wide web. It springs a new hope to the despondent. It should not be allowed to wither for want of material resources.
Here is what Nivi exhorts you to do:
Donate to Wikipedia if You Love Your Mom.
If you donate, I will tell everybody you are cool.
If you don’t donate, you hate America and you love the terrorists.
It is that simple.
Seriously though, please donate, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has made a personal appeal.
Here is a Personal Appeal from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales for donation.
Do not force folks to resort to direct action like what these folks have attempted to do 
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Metacafé - Watch - Involuntary Blood Donation!
My SQL, Your SQL or SCO SQL?
I read from MySQL website that the SCO Group, Inc. (Linux lawsuit fame) has entered into an agreement with MySQL AB to jointly deliver a certified, commercial version of the MySQL database for SCO Open Server 6, the newest release of SCO’s UNIX solutions platform.
This is what A.P.Lawrence has to say about it:-
Of course the vagueness about licensing is deliberate. RedHat does the same thing, as do other vendors who “support” GPL. Really, they use open source as a marketing tool and want you to be confused as to whether you can use the free version and even as to how to get it. It’s only when pushed against the wall, as MySQL was with regard to PHP’s use of MySQL that they’ll make unambiguous statements about acceptable use.
So it seems that SCO may be finally ready to learn some lessons about Open Source, and this deal could be more important in that regard than for any other reason. I’ve said before that if SCO wants to survive, they need to get on the Open Source train. With sufficient skullduggery, misdirection, obfuscation and fud, a company can be “Open Source” and commercial at the same time.
Love’s labor’s lost
aka Toiling with open source projects aka Thankless sweating out.
Yes, it left-handedly supports the theory of “quid pro quo” and “there is nothing called free lunch”; all other pursuits are attempts against the natural processes and futile attempts to negate the nature’s scheme of things.
Read this lament by Ryan Boren, one of the chief architects of highly successful semantic blogging tool Wordpress (you are sitting on it right now!).
Are you expecting fame and reward? I’ve contributed a heaping shitload of time to open source projects over the last decade and in that time one person bought me something off my wishlist and Nuclear Moose interviewed me. Oh, and I received an endless stream of pissy and petty emails from people who think they own me when they use what I give them for free. I was also constantly implicated in the conspiracy theories of raving idiots and mired in the politics of those who find evidence of elitism in every damn decision and make calls for class struggle against the oppressive devs with each breath. Such is the way it is. Do this as a hobby with no expectation of getting anything out of it or do something else and save yourself the disappointment
Anyway, open source and free software enthusiasts are hardy lot. They do not expect anything in return for the donkey’s work they put on any project. They do what is called in Sanskrit as “Nishkamya karma”. They are the true followers of the teachings of Bhagavat Gita. They renounce the natural human urges of possession and zealous protection. They refuse to be bourgeois.
May their tribe grow!
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