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Re:VLC media player banned in India by Soids on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:27PM (#32446390)
+1. Around 2005/6 there was some news story that some minister was asking why long distance phone call taxes were dropping and someone explained that corporates were using Skype now. His response was that they are still required to pay the taxes. facepalm

Recently, in an op/ed article about something different the journalist said "India is a first world country with a third world government."

More on topic: I didn't know about VLC until an Indian coworker introduced it to me.

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Re:VLC media player banned in India by PoignardAzur on Saturday August 13, 2022 @09:48AM (#32449844)
> More on topic: I didn't know about VLC until an Indian coworker introduced it to me.

That's an odd remark. VLC is open source software, of course you're going to learn about it through word of mouth.

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