An intresting story found in the internet:

"At the Web 2.0 Summit, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted that
Microsoft 'will do
some
buying of companies that are built around open-source
products,'
suggesting that to avoid open-source companies would
'take us out of the
acquisition market quite dramatically.' Ballmer has
apparently come a long way since
dubbing Linux a 'cancer.' The real question, however, is which
open-source
companies make sense within the Microsoft product
portfolio, both
from a technology and philosophy perspective.
Novell? 37Signals? Jive? SugarCRM?
And, equally importantly, which companies
could look their communities in the
eye after selling to Microsoft?"

Its not hard for a $250bn company to buy a $2bn redhat or anyother small free
softwares. But will that make any difference?? I mean they already are under
some licensing scheme (like gpl). And according to it they have to keep the
source open whether it is microsoft or any other company. So the only thing
they can do is maybe they can prevent such comapnies from contributing to
free software. Ridiculous. Correct me if my observation is wrong.

Eight and counting

My new HP laptop is giving me a real head ache with the recovery disk creation. I have used 8 different media (including Rs25 worth sony dvd). It requires 2 dvds. But until now I have just managed to create only 1 dvd. This damn dvd writer cannot write on all the disk. This is 'BURNING' a hole in my pocket and not dvd's.

Huntred need some work

Huntred is now almost 6 years old. Its been almost 4 years after it was moved to download.com. Until now I havent worked seriously on the profile page. I need to create some good text. Can anyone help me?? currently the link is music.download.com/huntred . If someone can plz send me an email.

Btw I'm planning to upload a couple of songs in the album. One of them will be uploaded this week itself. The work is almost completed and its ready to go.

Great Indian victory

Yet another win in T-20 for india. It seems india is really enjoying t20. This should be a really good news for BCCI and zee india. Indian premier league and zee's league should see success. These victories should pull more crowds to the stadium and television. Any way I'm enjoying the game. I can see the result in 3 hrs. And this is the only game format in which india is winning ;) (just joking - no one can beat india in test matches :) ).

BTW the absence of the oldies, i feel, is certainly helping india ;) . And I dont see a place for them in the t20 in the near future.

Funny 'sun'ny interview

Few days ago one of our faculty announced that sun microsystems need a campus academy partner to promote their products. Sun afterall is known for its brilliant efforts to promote opensource software (or may be its because of the finiancial crisis that has been haunting them for about 5 yrs that made them the opensource side). Anyway my love for 'open' forced me to attend it. I got through the first phase now there are only 5 ppl. Ok, the day came I was very prepared I learned a lot of things about sun, I already knew a lot about opensource or rather free software. I can make a long speech about LINUX. what more they want?? I was very confident. The interview started everything was going fine but one question really surprised me 'HOW DO YOU CONVINCE A LINUX USER TO USE SOLARIS?'. I never knew that sun's love for opensource ended with solaris. okies so linux and solaris dosent go together ;)

I'm back

A couple of days ago I saw gurujis blog. There was nothing much in that but I felt I should start or rather resume my previous blog. I lost my previous links (it was really long time ago). Well let me try to fill it up with something. Something intresting...