[Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source
- From: prataprc@xxxxxxxxx (Pratap Chakravarthy)
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:26:56 +0530
now to add some ghee to the flame - as many of you will know the GSOC
mentor's list has a hot discussion going regarding widespread cheating
in GC-IN - including the interesting information that 80% of the
cheaters are Indians. There have even been suggestions that *all*
Indians be banned from GC-IN and GSOC too.
Indians cheating ? Nay sir, they are just damn too smart for rest of the world.
Whoever said being competitive is directly proportional to working hard.
So what does this suggest to
us about our culture and our understanding of open source culture?
History can throw some light on that.
So I was reading this book, "Alcatraz versus the evil librarians",
(yep I still read
children's books), here the protagonist and his friend (a 13 year old
ninja girl)
will be in a tight situation inside a library built by evil
librarians. Now to avoid
being surrounded by librarian thugs our protagonist had to distract them
somehow. And then he remember seeing a bunch of speaking dinosaurs, speaking
with British accent and only as tall as a human being, captivated inside a cell.
He runs back to the cell followed by his puzzled ninja girl-friend, and
immediately breaks open the cell, releasing all the dinosaurs. And explains
to his ninja girl, who by now is more puzzled about our protagonist's motive,
that, dinosaurs even if human sized ought to run around rampaging the library
floors, thus creating a rocus distracting the librarian thugs. The
ninja girl gets
thoroughly irritated and replies "Didn't you notice ? they are British
dinosaurs !!
and everyone knows, all British are refined, calm, and well mannered,
even if they
are a bunch of dinosaurs". And to his horror, our protagonist was watching the
dinosaurs leave the cell one by one politely thanking him and
strolling gracefully
down the corridor.
Okay now we know how and who of Brits. Let us move on to our quintessential
Indian.
So there was this quintessential Indian, let us call him Ihdang, who
by some cruck
of luck happen to land on London. Tragedy befell the British Empire - an empire,
in those days, where sun never sets. And soon he could grasp what
Alcatraz grasped
belatedly, that the British are refined, calm and well mannered, even
if they are a bunch
of dinosaurs. And out of nowhere he decided to play "political saint", pulling
together the likes of Alrib for funding and the likes of Urhen and
Letap for mass, and
all the while forcing the Brits to be, well a refined, calm and well
mannered Brit.
Call for a total boycott until the colonial machinery comes to stand still and
when the Brits mount their guns, walk back to work as if nothing has happened.
Declare fast until death only to drink a cup of juice once the Brits
blink due to nervous
exhaustion.
One can only describe the situation better through the words of Joker
from Darknight
"What happens when an unstoppable force meet an immovable object ?"
The Brits could take it no more. They left India to quintessential Indians.
Did you read this far because you got a hint that it is about
historical facts ? Okay,
history is something that I write when I get bored writing programs. And as a
cultural fact, all my folks can teach history even if they don't know
how to read or
write. Anyone still around ?
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