Fsf-friends January 2004

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RMS in Delhi
by Arun M 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Hi All, RMS today after noon left for delhi. His visit to Kerala was very effective. The message of free software has reached all over the state. It seems that this visit will have an effect on kerala's IT policy. RMS's delhi programs are. Venue : JNU Date : 28th Jan 2.30 pm Topic : Venue : IIT Delhi Date : 29th Jan 5.15 pm Topic : The Danger of Software Patents Venue : School of Convergence, International Management Institute. Date : 31th Jan 2.30 pm Topic : Copyright vs Community regards, arun.

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Rachana fonts released under GPL
by Anivar Aravind 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

SORRY 4 DELAY!! rachana fonts relesed under gpl by rms on 23rd jan on the event at CUSAT. the fonts are available shortly on fsug-cusat website. it is a set of 6 fonts under gpl . but they are created under fontographer. the fontographer sources are also with it. It is very helpful 4 us on creation of an opentype font 4 malayalam. Dont use the current fonts. We will make it available within 2 or 3 days. A concept note on rachana is available here http://fsug-cusat.port5.com/malayalam/oaol.html . Anivar.a.Aravaind cusat -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Google News Alert - Linux
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

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Re: [glug-t] GNU Manifesto Question
by Senthil_OR＠Dell.com 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 17:44, Vijay Kumar wrote: > What is the meaning of "millions for defense, but not a cent for > tribute!"? We > do not understand it to the point of being able to translate it to > tamil. > Can somebody tell us the meaning of this line? > Has to do with some american history stuff, it seems: By 1800 a new slogan was beginning to appear across the new country, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." http://www.zianet.com/wblase/endtimes/barbary.htm After reading this,I think it should be appropriated. -Senthil

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GNU Manifesto Question
by Vijay Kumar 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

We(the GNU/Linux User Group of Trichy) are working on the Tamil Translation of the GNU Manifesto. It is almost complete. But we have a few problems... RMS writes: ------------------- Manifesto Begins ---------------------------------- "We need the programmers desperately. If they demand that we stop helping our neighbors, we have to obey." You're never so desperate that you have to obey this sort of demand. Remember: millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute! ------------------- Manifesto Ends ------------------------------------- What is the meaning of "millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute!"? We do not understand it to the point of being able to translate it to tamil. Can somebody tell us the meaning of this line? Vijay -- Free the Code. Free the User. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP(http://www.nitt.edu)

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Rachana font released in Free license
by Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Please don't use the ones you currently have. We will soon have the fonts with proper copyright matters embedded in the font with credits. The font creators, Shri Hussain and Shri Chitranja Kumar are working on webpages for the project. They will be releasing it on the web soon. This list will be informed. Students of CUSAT should be credited for working to make this work GPL and is so is the authors who happily agreed when they heard about the GNU project and the GPL. They (students of CUSAT) are also working on opentype fonts and further development of Rachana fonts together with original authors. Ramakrishnan Manilal wrote: >I have this font with me. If you want this I'll send it. But I don't know >whether it's official release or not. However since there are no full >fledged editors using this charset it's little use now. We are working to >develop such an editor. The fonts are fantastic and most of them look like >the letters in the older 'thaliyola'. I am not a member of the >development team. One of my friends gave me this fonts. >regards >Manilal >Sajith VK said: > > >>Hi, >> Rachana, a malayalam font is released in free license. >>This release was by RMS, during his kochi visit. RMS did >>mentioned about this in a discussion at CESS, tvm. >> >> Did anybody now the details like where Can we get the font, >>and who all are this great movement...... >> >>-- >>"Freedom Matters" >>Sajith VK >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Fsf-friends mailing list >>Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in >>http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Fsf-friends mailing list >Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in >http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > >

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Rachana font released in Free license
by Manilal 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Raghavendra Bhat said: > You have helped yourself. Thanks for being very clueful and reading > those links. > Hello, I have read some interesting articles regarding top-posting and bottom-posting. I am unaware of such matters. First of all I thank you for linking me to such things. Some opposed top-posting but some opposed bottom-posting. I neither have inclination to both these techniques. I did top-posting only because of convenience. After reading some of the articles I think that there is nothing wrong in top-posting.For your convenience I am bottom-posting this mail. I am sorry, if I had hurt you in this regard. Meanwhile you have some remarks about Rachana fonts. Please make it clear. regards Manilal

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Re: [Fsf-friends]To Raghavendra Bhat
by Mahesh T. Pai 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Manilal said on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:00:49PM +0530,: > > Raghavendra Bhat, > Read the two mails by You. and to save your "bandwidth" I am combining the > reply to one mail. The only thing I have done is replying to the mails > that appeared in the List. > I don't think that there is something wrong with my mails. And I will > reply to mails that I have interest. > If you want to save the bandwidth the better way is to unsubsribe from > the list. > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > > Manilal > > Raghavendra Bhat said: > > Manilal posts: > > > >> The fonts are fantastic and most of them look like the letters in the > >> older 'thaliyola' > > > > Someone was heard as saying that such fonts can also help us save > > bandwidth, newsprint and printing ink. If so, then seeing them released > > under the GNU GPL is a big relief indeed! > > You have quoted only from 20040126061036.GB17617@_deleted_by_me_to_protect_privacy. Which is the other post? What is there in the mail quoted by you to warrant a demand for unsubscription? -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://in.geocities.com/paivakil +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Rachana font released under the GNU GPL by the `Rachana Akshara Vedi'
by Raghavendra Bhat 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Manilal posts: > The fonts are fantastic and most of them look like the letters in the > older 'thaliyola' Someone was heard as saying that such fonts can also help us save bandwidth, newsprint and printing ink. If so, then seeing them released under the GNU GPL is a big relief indeed! TIA. -- ragOO Amateur Radio VU2RGU http://puggy.symonds.net/~fsug-kochi

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RMS speech on Software Patents
by Manilal 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Friends, Just attended the RMS' lecture at the EMS Memorial Lecture(Kerala University Senate Hall,Thiruvananthapuram). The speech was informative. It would be very useful if anyone can post the complete text(or audio format) of the speech. I think the FSF India people can help. The lecture was on software patents. regards Manilal

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