Fsf-friends February 2004

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[Fsf-friends] Audio recording of the video conference with Richard Stallman
by Vijay Kumar 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

The audio of recording of the video conference with Dr. Richard Stallman is avaialable from the following website http://www.nitt.edu/probe/lectures.shtml#freesoft The audio recording is available in both Ogg Vorbis and MP3 format. Some people sent me mails asking what software was used for the video conference. Actually, the video conference equipment we used were all hardware. I used a Debian GNU/Linux system to do the audio recording in WAV format at 16kHz sampling rate using snd-recorder. This was later compressed using oggenc to produce the ogg vorbis file. Vijay -- Free the Code. Free the User. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP(http://www.nitt.edu)

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 10, Issue 19 (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Did this get across to the list? FN On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Richard Stallman wrote: > Translations are modified versions. People who want to publish translations > should write to web-trans(a)gnu.org, and arrange for them to be published > on our web site. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2004 | Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Goa India 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | ---------------------------------------- 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | Email fred at bytesforall.org 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | Writing with a difference 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | ... on what makes *the* difference 29 | http://www.bytesforall.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: req for help on shell design.
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

Could anyone help Arjun in Bangalore? FN On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Arjun Venkat wrote: > hi im a student of computer science at bangalore and am planning to > implement my own shell for linux. id be grateful for any pointers i could > get on the subject i.e. reference books, sites etc. if you could please put > this on the LUG in bangalore id be really grateful > thanks > Arjun Venkatraman > 6th sem B.E. > Computer Science Engg > Dayananda Sagar College of Engg > Bangalore-78 > ph 9886037416 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Masterpieces made affordable! Buy art prints. > http://go.msnserver.com/IN/42736.asp MSN Shopping. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2004 | Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Goa India 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | ---------------------------------------- 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | Email fred at bytesforall.org 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | Writing with a difference 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | ... on what makes *the* difference 29 | http://www.bytesforall.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

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24 Feb '04

I would like to know, what one should do to distribute translations of the GNU Manifesto. The copyright notice in the Manifesto says modified versions may not be made. Do we have to get permission from RMS? Is the translation considered a modified version? Vijay -- Free the Code. Free the User. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP(http://www.nitt.edu)

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Legal issues and FLOSS licences
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Shun-ling Chen, the Project Manager of the Open Source Software Foundry (Law & Policy) at Taiwan's Institute of Information Science at the Academia Sinica writes in to inform of an English version of a booklet, which deals with Free/Libre and Open Source Software licenses. Download the PDF file from http://www.openfoundry.org/en/archives/000387.html Also, a comparison on the 10 most pervasively adopted open source licenses could be downloaded from http://www.openfoundry.org/en/archives/000388.html She says: "Your comments and corrections are most appreciated." -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2004 | Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Goa India 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | ---------------------------------------- 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | Email fred at bytesforall.org 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | Writing with a difference 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | ... on what makes *the* difference 29 | http://www.bytesforall.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

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KalaKaumudi Article
by Manilal 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Friends, An Obscene article appeared in the recent issue of KalaKaumudi(Malayalam fortnightly, issue no:1485, Feb 15-21). The author of the article Mr. Madhu Nair(Reporting from New York) criticise Stallman in a very bad manner. He is making fun of Malayalees and says that Stallman has no disciples at Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, TamilNadu and calls him a "Smallman". Actually the article is so obsolete that it's a waste to discuss about it. Still as it gives a bad impression about Swathanthra Software and personally criticise Stallman it should be noted. Regards Manilal

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by fjsylvester 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

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[FSFE PR][EN] "Free Software Foundation defends the GNU GPL against SCO attacks" (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Milano, February 18th, 2003 - for immediate release - "Free Software Foundation defends the GNU GPL against SCO attacks" The organization that defends Free Software in Europe, Free Software Foundation Europe, has no doubt that the litigation between SCO against IBM and Novell cannot affect the users of the operating system GNU/Linux. Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia University, pro-bono general counsel of FSF North America, has published a paper that will help free software developers and end-users understand the legal issues and business risks involved in using the Linux kernel. The paper is avaible on the OSDL web site. http://www.osdl.org/docs/osdl_eben_moglen_third_statement.pdf "After selling licenses for rights in the original Unix code, the SCO Group is now suing Novell to please hand over those rights to SCO." Stefano Maffulli, Italian chancellor of FSF Europe explains. "The lawsuit shows SCO Group's uncertainty about their claims on the code in question. One could ask on what grounds they think they were suing others. In any case, their licensing campaign is obviously over," he continues. The license of the Linux kernel, the GNU General Public Licens, grants the recipients of the software the right to use, copy, modify and redistribute the software under the same terms. Many users got the Linux software from the SCO Group, even after they sued IBM in august 2003. "As both the SCO Group and Novell, through its recent acquisition SuSE, have been distributing copies of the GNU/Linux system -- including the Linux kernel -- under the GNU GPL, it means that regardless of the outcome of that process, no party will ever be able to ask for licensing fees." says Werner Koch, Head of Office of FSF Europe. "The whole issue has been very much overplayed and overrated by analysts who assumed that if there is smoke, there is fire. But in the modern business world, you will often discover nothing but a smoke machine," concludes Georg Greve, president of the FSF Europe. "In the end, this case is a typical example of a company trying to undo time and undoing itself in the process. Understanding, accepting and working with the freedoms of Free Software is becoming a key factor of success for modern companies in information technology." About the Free Software Foundation Europe The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) is a charitable non-governmental organization dedicated to all aspects of Free Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. Therefore the freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition - allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSF Europe, which was founded in 2001 as the European sister organization of the Free Software Foundation in the United States. http://fsfeurope.org Contact Europe: Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)fsfeurope.org> phone: +49-40-23809080 fax: +49-40-23809081 Italy: Stefano Maffulli <maffulli(a)fsfeurope.org> phone: +39-02-34537127 fax: +39-02-34531282 Germany: Werner Koch <koch(a)fsfeurope.org> phone: +49-2104-173855 Further contact information available at http://fsfeurope.org/contact/ _______________________________________________ Press-release mailing list Press-release(a)fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release

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Re: summer school
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

Could someone help Prof Gangavane? Prof, I wish the term used would be GNU/Linux (rather than just the kernel's lable of 'Linux', which lacks the strong emphasis on ethics and freedom. FN On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, vibhavari vasant pandit wrote: > To, Respected Sir/Madam Sub :- Demanding suggestion about summer school. We are going to conduct Summer School at panhale (Lanja) Ratnagiri. This summer School is held during the month of May. The Summer School will be a 1-Month condensed introduction of a Vocational Course that is meant to prepare the student to be a Productive Self Reliant Knowledgeable Computer Craftsman who has leaned the Art of Working with Free Software for Productive use in the Society, covering all important Areas of human life. These students would have tasted the Freedom and Honesty and Continuous Learning that is involved in working with Free software, and would have imbibed the work culture of independent and autonomous self-learning made possible by the free access to the wealth of software and documentation available on the internet. It also engenders in them the spirit of freely giving back to the society in kind. Syllabus of course is enclosed with this letter. Kindly send your suggestions on this id vgangavane(a)rediffmail.com or contacat on this telephone no.(02351) 230749 & (02351) 230824. One Month Course Contents 1. Computer Fundamentals - Computing with a Desktop PC 2. What is Free Software, Open Source , Linux ? 3. System features - Design and Philosophy of Linux. 4. Text processing and word processing. 5. Programming languages and utilities. 6. Graphical Desktop - X Window System. 7. Introduction to Networking and Communications. 8. World Wide Web. 9. Differences between Linux and other operating systems. 10. Hardware requirements. 11. Obtaining and Installing Linux 12. Generic installation - Partitioning. 13. Hardware Compatibility Issues 14. Features of Installed Linux System 15. Console commands, Indirection and Piping 16. Desktop Programs 17. Downloading, Copying and Installing Programs 18. Linux Distributions - Red Hat Linux. 19. The RPM package management system. 20. Problems with installation 21. Understanding Login accounts. 22. Shells and Executing programs. 23. Home directory and Working in Linux 24. The Linux File System 25. The root user and Permissions 26. Jobs and processes. 27. Background processes and Daemons. 28. Text documents Using the vi editor. 29. HTML documents with vi editor. 30. TeX dcuments with vi editor. 31. Shell environment and scripts. 32. Creating,Archiving and compressing files. 33. Upgrading and installing new software. 34. Application Binaries and System files. 35. Text processing using GUI Applications 36. Indian Language Fonts and Documents. 37. Images and Image Editing 38. Sound and Text to Speech 39. Linux Desktop Multimedia 40. Devices and Mounts in Linux 41. Serial, Parallel and USB devices 42. Printing, Scanning and Camera 43. Networking and Host names 44. Configuring TCP/IP on the system. 45. Dial-up Modems, PPP and Internet. 46. Linux Console and gui programs. 47. Tricks and Shortcuts. 48. The linux culture. Yours Faithfully Vasantrao Gangavane -- Frederick Noronha : http://fredericknoronha.blogware.com Freelance Journalist : Ph 0091.832.2409490 Cell 0 9822 122436

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Bangla LINUX in Compass 2004
by linux junkies 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

Yesterday was the last day of COMPASS 2004. After three disappointing days last two days has been encouraging to the Linux fanatics like me. ILUG-CAL presented linux to this COMPASS. I must appreciate Mr.Indranil Dasgupta and Mr Shankarshan Mukhopadhya, who answered the open house. Though participation was very disappointing. The range of question was very vivid. From one user asking the web address where he can download these free stuffs to the other user asking whether he can use his old ttf (true type font) Bengali fonts in this free OS platform. Most of the queries were whether users could run so-called popular proprietary s/w in GNU/LINUX. Both of them handled these queries efficiently. My heartiest thanks to them. Most interesting part was their presentation on Ankur Bangla Project. ( You can see details about it at www.bengalinux.org ). They presented Ankur Bangla Live CD 1.0. It is a fascinating idea to make a OS with Bangali messages. People will love to work with a s/w that they can instruct in his mother tongue (though it will still work in binary). The basic idea of popularizing GNU/Linux will get a booster dose, at least in Bengal through this project. L10n(localization) of the OS is very much needed to popularize Free s/w. Various bengali OTF(Open type Fonts) in UNICODE was also very much needed for easy portability. The editors are quite good. They have all powerful features that a modern text editor needs, even a interesting bengali dictionary to check spellings . Bangla Sahityer Sankalan (Collection of Bengali Literature) is also very unique. The Full Ankur Bangla Linux distribution is due in April 2004. They are also undertaking Oriya localization project. It is nice to hear that 15 community centers in USA is using this Live CD to train US born bengali children in their mother tongue. These children took birth in a country habituated with computer. So its a nice idea to teach them bengali through computers. This live CD might be first big step forward to popularize GNU/Linux in Bengal also. We can approach West Bengal Government to adapt this Bengali Linux instead of proprietary s/w in their basic computer education starting from school. May this live CD, not be a collectors item of proprietary s/w users. I expect this CD to pave a path of using free s/w and LINUX OS in West Bengal. One very good friend of mine made a good point here. We must make conscious effort to let people know that there exist a Free Live Bangla OS CD, otherwise there is no point in making such a good job. It will just be wasted. A grass root level workforce must be there to popularize GNU/Linux itself, otherwise all their valuable efforts will be in vain. I found a little boy in this COMPASS saying Their configuration lack enough memory to run P IV efficiently, after seeing a h/w vendors offer paper. This was fabulous. It shows how much we are coming of age. But this little boy must also be taught to use FREE GNU/Linux and s/w so that he will not use pirated proprietary s/w. He should be taught that here he can put his talent to modify the s/w itself according to his need. Most of the LUGs have been involved in projects that take the free s/w movement ahead. It is very much needed. But they lack the urge to popularize it in grass root level. But Believe me, this is important. There is no point in inventing space ships if common people are not made aware of their existence. Common people must be heard, they must be informed, due attention must be given to them to solve their basic problems in GNU/Linux. They must not thing Linux is very much geeks OS. They must feel easy while using LINUX daily in their PC. May the freedom, knowledge and the Ankur Bangla Live CD 1.0 be with you You can download this from http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bengalinux/ankurbangla-ld_1.0.… regards avijit patra linuxjunkies foundation www.linuxjunkies.org/forum Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more.

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