Fsf-friends March 2003

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NEWS: What is MS decides to go Open Source?
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSFORGE: WHAT IF MICROSOFT DECIDES TO GO OPEN SOURCE? "Someone at Microsoft must realize that Office will eventually be cloned (OpenOffice is a start), ruining their market; if IBM can speculate that someday AIX may be dropped because Linux has grown up, wouldn't it be better for Microsoft to enter the Open Source software industry and survive...?" COMPLETE STORY: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1233239&mode=thread&tid=19 More Developer stories: http://linuxtoday.com/developer ------------------------------------------------------------------

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ILUG-Belgaum... an event this weekend
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

ILUG-BELGAUM, ONE OF the younger LUGs around the place, is to hold its first major GNU/Linux meet in the north Karnataka town of Belgaum on the weekend. It is being held over Saturday afternoon and the entire of Sunday. If you'd like more details, contact rohankangralkar(a)hotmail.com or check out the discussion and announcements at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-belgaum. We from the Goa LUG wish them all the best for and this and other forthcoming events. FN -- Frederick Noronha : http://www.fredericknoronha.net : When we speak of free Freelance Journalist : http://www.bytesforall.org : software we refer to Ph 0091.832.2409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price.

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[Fwd: Re: [GOV-LIST] Governo do Brasil Ceritifica Navegadores Livres]
by KG Kumar 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Rodrigo Stulzer <rodrigo(a)conectiva.com.br> > To: Phil Hughes <fyl(a)a42.com> > Cc: gov-list(a)ssc.com > Subject: Re: [GOV-LIST] Governo do Brasil Ceritifica Navegadores Livres > Date: 24 Mar 2003 14:51:49 -0300 > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Phil Hughes wrote: > > > This article was recommended by Jaco <jaco(a)fsconsortium.com>. > > Assuming you are s good at Portugense and I am, he offers the > > following clues as to the content: > > *The Brazilian Government digitally certified Mozilla and Galeon* > > > > The text, the Presidential secretary explains why it is important to have > > browser who comply with open standards. > > In any case, another free software win in government. > > Hi Phil and fellows of gov-list! > > The Brazilian Government and Conectiva signed last week this deal to > include in Conectiva Linux the ICP-Brasil digital signature. The event was > a very good one and several key people from the Government was there. The > speech of the National Technology Institute President, Sergio Amadeu, was > very clear: the government wants Linux and all the open standards. They do > not want closed protocols and solutions from just One Company. > > I was there signing the deal and the whole speech from the government side > was _very impressive_. They are very commited to Open Source/Free > Software. > > I think that signature was a milestone in the Linux history here in > Brazil. > > Regards, > > Rodrigo Stulzer, > Marketing Director > Conectiva S.A. > > Links: > http://www.iti.gov.br/ > http://www.icpbrasil.gov.br/ > http://www.icpbrasil.gov.br/certificadoACRaiz.crt > http://www.conectiva.com.br > > This Linux in Government list is sponsored by Linux Journal. > -- KG Kumar Indian TeX Users Group kg at tug dot org dot in ------------------------

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Free software news feeds...
by Frederick Noronha 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW UK FREE SOFTWARE NEWS FEED AFFS has started publishing its news items as an RSS feed and invites members, computer users and other web sites to start using it. COMPLETE STORY: http://linuxpr.com/releases/5679.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 20 STUDENTS WORLDWIDE, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WIN IBM'S 2ND LINUX CHALLENGE; Participation doubles globally, mission critical applications increase COMPLETE STORY: http://linuxpr.com/releases/5689.html ------------------------------------------------------------------

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CollegeTodos
by zoyd 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

"Following are some simple things you can do to spread awareness about free software in your college: Georg Greve maintains a very good column of free software reviews called the Brave GNU World, it's ideal for printing and putting up on college or hostel notice boards. Check Issue #48." http://nodegroup.com/vinay/wiki/index.php/Main/CollegeTodos Above is the URL to the wikipage on my personal wiki. Feel free to edit the wikipage and add your ideas. Thanks, Vinay Pawar(aka zoyd) http://nodegroup.com/vinay/

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| LinuxForYou... March 2003 | Connecting GNU/Linux and Windows |
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

JUST AN UPDATE of what's in issue # 2 of what claims to be Asia's first [GNU]Linux magazine, covering the technology for beginners, power users, IT implementers, developers and the industry. CONNECTING [GNU]LINUX & WINDOWS Tools explained: Explore2fs and WinaXe CYGWIN A friendly application VMWare Go the emulation way GRUB The dual boot metho WINE Windows on [GNU]Linux SAMBA Network [GNU]Linux across platforms o QUOTE: LFY: How do you like the magazine? RMS: I have to say this. I am very, very unhappy with the magazine. You really should not be doing this. The magazine should not be named LINUX For You. It should be GNU/Linux For You. You've got to change this. (Richard M Stallman, quoted in an interview) o Editor Rahul Chopra says of the last issue: "Day three of our all-India launch and we had sellouts from top three cities!" o SUBSCRIBE TO LFY for Rs 370 per year, instead of Rs 600. Valid uptil 31 March 2003. o OpenOffice.ORG is sure to give other proprietory office suites a run for their money, writes Sharminder Singh. o SuSE LINUX 8.1 is easy to install and fun to operate. It can be used on your home and office desktop, comes with fundoo games and educational software. For the server administrator, there are several useful tools available, says Vijaya Kittu. o COOL HANGOUTS FOR DEVELOPERS www.sourceforge.com www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/ www.freshmeat.net www.python.org www.kernel.org www.sun.com/developers/ www.perl.com o IF YOU HAVE had that (anti-'piracy') knock on your door, and are considering the move to GNU/ Linux or have migrated since then, write to freedomyug(a)linuxforu.com with your story. o INDIA NEWS - Red Hat India to expand - Interview: V Khanna, CEO, Ampersand, Delhi - LinuxInIndia: extracts from a report by Nasscom (some on the GNU/Linux found it ironical that one of India's pro-Microsoft, and pro-proprietorial code bodies is tom-tomming GNU/Linux) - C-DAC taking the open source route. - Open Source: a disruptive technology? - Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital, 180 beds with advanced diagnostics, has opted for GNU/Linux. - Symantec AntiVirus, Mumbai - Rainmail Intranet from Carizen Software Chennai - GroupX2, groupware soln from Blore - Elx, much undernoticed, from Hyderabad - Legato's NetWorker from Delhi - eSpark's Realtime, Bangalore - Atlantic's sales force automation, Delhi - Arava's Arcon -- mail, Internet, intranet server o ENTERPRISE MESSAGING... Firms that use GNU/Linux for e-mails find it feature-rich, stable and easy to upgrade. News from Sahara India (1500 offices... using Qmail), Bharati-Teletech, Bry-Air (RedHat for e-mail and proxy servers since 1999), Arcus Ltd. o Q-MAIL SERVER IN THE ENTERPRISE. Use the step-by-step instructions given here to implement a Q-Mail server in your organisation. It will take only a few hours to do so. o MITHI cOnnect server: Offers a corporate email solution with the "performance of [GNU]Linux and the ease of Windows'" o WHAT's NUMA got to do with clusters? o INTRODUCING PERL.. Perl is a script language that can help you carry out a variety of tasks. Learn aboutPerl data types and variables. Perl expressions, loops in Perl and more. o LINUX databases. MySQL, POSTGRESQL. InterBase. Non-relational databases. Four page article. o THE SHELL CORNER, beginning with interactive scripts o CVS for developers: This software helps developers living across the world to pool data in a central location, access it, make changes to the content, and save it. (Pages 80-81). o [GNU]LINUX IN EDUCATION: An article that doesn't do justice to its subject. Lot more depth is required to tackle this. GLUE by Ajith in Delhi is not mentioned. LIFE of Prof Nagarajuna doesn't get noticed. RedHat is wrongly credited for "working closely" to deploy GNU/Linux in 42 schools (if this is in Goa, the company did only very little) and BytesForAll.org (something which I'm directly involved -FN) doesn't focus on these kind of projects and has never claimed to have worked on it ;-) o Design of a diskless client terminal o Report on GNUnify in Pune ('RMS was there') o Linux World Expo 2003, a report o SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 edition is available from sales(a)seascope.co.in o LISTING OF Asia's and India's LUGs and GLUGs... pretty useful. Accuracy and depth of info could improve. o ROBERT J CHASSELL on why software freedom empowers the developer, enables the user, and offers students something they love. (ENDS) LOOKING AHEAD: What's your opinion on a suitable distro to be included in a future edition of LFY? My suggestion? FreEduc. -- Frederick Noronha : http://www.bytesforall.org : When we speak of free Freelance Journalist : Goa India 403511 : software we refer to Ph 0091.832.2409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price.

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NEWS: Sun Microsystems pledges $300 million donation to India
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

First Microsoft megabucks, now Sun's. Given that giving copies of software licences is only a notional transfer, one could debate the real value of such "donations". Incidentally, does anyone have an idea of what must be the worth of Free Software "donated" to India over the years? Billions of dollars? At the end of the day, it all depends on how one values it. FN - - - - - - - Sun Microsystems pledges $300 million donation to India >From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, Mar 20 (IANS) Sun Microsystems, a global giant in computer networking, Thursday said it would donate software worth $300 million for non-commercial usage to Indian education institutes. "The donation will be with respect to online training for universities and academic use," Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive officer of the U.S.-based Sun Microsystems told media persons here. McNealy, on a three-day visit to India to boost Sun's market presence, said the donation would help raise the level of IT research in the country and would encourage widespread adoption and use of all its products. He said India and China had the potential to be growth engines with their remarkable growth rates as compared to Japan, the U.S. and Germany, whose growth was flat for the last few years. McNealy promised more investments in India, especially in research and development and education and training to tap the country's vast IT talent pool. Reacting to reports that the open source Linux was badly affecting Sun's business, McNealy said: "I cannot disagree with that more. The company that is going to be hammered by Linux is Microsoft." He said Sun Microsystems believes in offering value added and packaged services on open source technology. McNealy said Sun was keen to work with Indian firms to develop cheap personal computers running on Linux. --Indo-Asian News Service

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[LINK] - Localisation
by Kanti Jadia 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

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Misuse of Knowledge
by CK Raju 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

After going through the contents at WarGains.zip (19KB) I find enough reasons to get worried over whether the efforts of Free Software Foundation would one day be hijacked and used against mankind. Do we need to explore on how to eliminate such a possiblity ? CK Raju

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YOUR LINUX TODAY NEWSLETTER FOR March 20, 2003 (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

------------------------------------------------------------------ PCWORLD: QUIET PROTEST MARKS OPEN SOURCE EVENT "Free software advocates protesting the decision to include Microsoft Corp. at an open source and government conference showed up in American Revolutionary War uniforms and passed out a few flyers Monday but otherwise didn't cause much of a ruckus..." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109857,00.asp More Developer stories: http://linuxtoday.com/developer ------------------------------------------------------------------

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