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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 proide a brief summary of the program. I hope you know what RMS will be talking about, so I am not going to those details :)
His talk was at NMKRV college in Jayanagar (Bangalore) which was very near to our office. I reached there with Jayesh around 10 am. I have seen his talks in video and today also it was a typical RMS talk. At the end of session, during questions time, I also asked one question :) I asked him: "Many free software follows release early, release often philosophy...". He interupted me, "No, that is not the case, and that is just a development methodology...". I continued my question like "Why GNU Emacs releases taking so much time...". He said, "That is due to technical reasons, you can also come and fix it (laugh) as it is free software and all the code is available in Savannah..." (Discaimer: This is not his exact wording)
Jayesh left earlier due to some important office works. I was also about to return home, then, Anivar suggested to go to the second program of RMS. After lunch we went to the Ambedkar Community Computing Center. This is a place where many poor people live. They were using free software for all their computing needs. All the peoples gathered there was really celebrating his visit.
After this program, my friends Sujith and Anivar was accompanying RMS to his hotel, they arranged some interview with press persons there. Again, as I had no other option, I also joined them. While travelling RMS' friend, Hareesh, Anivar & Sujith was talking about Dalits, Hiduism, Politcs etc. RMS also expressed his opinions sometimes.
We stopped in one hotel for tea and net browsing. He was sitting opposite to me. I was surprised to see that he was ordering an Indian cool drink very easily, "One cold badam milk" :) Hmm.. he had come to India many times, so he must be familiar with it. We spend almost one hour there. Later, I returned to my home and they proceeded to their hotel.
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