Fsf-friends June 2004

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To open software within three years
by Manjush G.Menon 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Original Message ----- From: "IT@School" <itschool(a)asianetindia.com> To: <manjushmenon(a)hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: Reply > Mr.Manjush G. Menon > We are not giving to depend totally on Ms. Products. Rather MS > Office is taught along with open office and Windows along with Linux > from this year. Arranging the resource persons for training an open > software, making available the software, the maintenance of a help desk > etc. are logistical issues which could not be immediately undertaken. > We plan switch out to open software within three years. > Executive Director > ---- Original Message ----- From: Manjush G. Menon To: itschool(a)asianetindia.com Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:46 PM Subject: Respected sir, From Manjush G. Menon, Sr.Programmer, Sofker Solutions Pvt Ltd, Kochi-18. To The Executive Director, 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project, SCERT Buildings, Poojapura, Thiruvananthapuram-12. Respected sir, SUB: In protest against the inclusion of products from multinational companies in the syllabus of 'IT @ SCHOOL' It's a very dissappointing fact that when the whole world is moving towards Free software, we at kerala are going behind a major MNC - Microsoft. I hereby register my protest in such an act from 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project team. Breaking of prototypes will definetly help us in finding economical and high quality products for our future generation. For students and programmers, the GNU Linux contains 'GNU Compiler Collections' which includes C, C++, FORTRAN, PERL, TCL etc. Also, for DTP and other publishing purposes, it includes GNU Office utilities like Abi-Word, gedit, and other worksheet utilities, all these with a nominal cost of Rs 700-800/-. The software as it is, is free and the cost is accounted towards the media (CD + Documentation) included. By this letter, I urge you to take this matter seriously and suggest necessary modifications in the action plan of 'IT @ SCHOOL' project. Wishing you all the best and wishing all 'Students @ SCHOOL' a bright future, Thanking you, Yours faithfully Manjush G. Menon. ______________________________________________________ Check out all the latest outrageous email attachments on the Outrageous Email Chart! - http://viral.lycos.co.uk

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PERUVIAN EFFORT COULD BAN MICROSOFT ON GOV. COMPUTERS (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Thanks to George Lessard for posting this across. FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- PERUVIAN EFFORT COULD BAN MICROSOFT ON GOV. COMPUTERS Peruvian Congressman Edgar Villanueva is pushing legislation to obligate all public institutions to convert exclusively to open-source software. Open-source programs, embodied by the Linux operating system, have underlying code available to anyone who wants to modify or customize it. Such software, in unadorned form, can be downloaded from the Internet for free. Villanueva hopes his measure triggers activity in Peru's software industry by freeing programmers from the constraints of working with coding controlled by a few large companies. Open-source could take the expense out of software upgrades; which is important for a country like Peru that owes about $30 million in overdue software license fees. [SOURCE: San Jose Mercury, AUTHOR: Associated Press] (http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/3531007.htm)

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new site of fsf in plone
by Nagarjuna G. 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

This is my first visit to this site, may be some of you may not have seen this, https://agia.fsf.org/ -- Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org> HBCSE, TIFR

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Hi
by fred＠bytesforall.org 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Important data!

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Join Software Freedom Day, Aug 28, 2004
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Software Freedom Day About SFD </staticpages/index.php/AboutSFD> Team Pages </wiki/index.php/Team_Pages> Forum </forum/index.php> Wiki </wiki/index.php/Main_Page> How to Help </staticpages/index.php/HowToHelp> FAQ </staticpages/index.php/FAQ> Submit Article </submit.php?type=story> Downloads <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/filemgmt/index.php> Contact </staticpages/index.php/Contact> Partners TheOpenCD GNSS FSF OSI Welcome to Software Freedom Day Online! *On August 28, 2004, we will celebrate the first annual Software Freedom Day.* On that day, we will make the world aware of the virtues of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and encourage its widespread use. We will set up stations in public places to give away informational fliers and CDs with selected FOSS, including TheOpenCD <http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/> and a special all-free version of Knoppix <http://www.knoppix.net/>. This is a global grassroots marketing campaign in which we are inviting volunteers from around the world to participate. It will be up to the individual teams to chose how they wish to organize their local PR efforts. We will assist with bulk production of supplies, though the cost of supplies must be distributed. Check our team pages to see if there is already a team near you, <http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/Team_Pages> or use this form <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/staticpages/index.php/TLSignup> to sign up to start one. We also have a forum <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/forum/index.php> and mailing lists to help you stay informed. We hope you will join the celebration! <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/staticpages/index.php/mailinglists> We have set up a wiki <http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page> that will contain all the team pages so that team members can set up and maintain their own information. Matt has made a team sign-up page <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/staticpages/index.php/TLSignup> where new team leaders can register their team and provide contact information. We would ask that even established teams take a moment to fill in this form so we have some standard contact information on all the teams. We have now settled on an official approach for the supplies we will provide to teams Software Freedom Day. We have always felt that it is important to have a professional appearance on the items that we give to the public, so we decided early on to help the SFD teams attain such professional quality materials. The exact form this would take has evolved during the planning process, and we can now present this year's for provision of the materials. *"Free Software Flooding" in Macedonia* <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/users.php?mode=profile&uid=6> <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/index.php?topic=General>Free/Libre Software Macedonia <http://www.freesoftware.org.mk/> have recently distributed 1000 CDs, half and half TheOpenCD and Knoppix, to help promote FLOSS. Here's the trick, the event was held outside the conference hall, in Skopje, where Microsoft's "Vizija" (Vision) conference was taking place, in short, Wonderful -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d88888b d8b db Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa India 88' 888o 88 f r e d @ b y t e s f o r a l l . o r g 88ooo 88V8o 88 http://www.bytesforall.org 88~~~ 88 V8o88 Phone 0091.832.2409490 Mobile 09822 122436 88 88 V888 784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Sonarbhat Saligao Goa 403511 YP VP V8P Writing ... with a difference, on issues that matter

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[Fsf-friends] [Fwd]: Sign this petition and support free/GNUsoftware
by Mahesh T. Pai 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Lovers of freedom, unite!!!! ----- Forwarded message from ----- > Hello all > > Please sign this petition and show your support for free/GNU software. > Do not forget that Code is Law .... > > http://www.PetitionOnline.com/amadeuus/ > > TIA. > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com Distributing free copies of non-free software is like advertising drugs.

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[Fwd: [LIG] OT: Survey on political motivations of GNU/Linux-developers]
by Nagarjuna 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Free Books Publication
by Vijay Kumar Bagavath Singh 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Vimal Joseph writes: > 6) How to think like a computer scientist > (python version) > http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/ > > 7) GTK+/Gnome Application Development > by Havoc Pennington > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ Just a word of caution. Many free software packages undergo rapid changes, for example Python and GTK+. If we were to print the manuals and tutorials related to these software packages, the printed book will become outdated soon. Yet another thing is that many people will not be willing to buy books for software packages that undergo rapid changes. Vijay -- ______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Fsf-friends] [Fwd]: Complimentary copies are not free
by Vijay Kumar Bagavath Singh 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Ramanraj writes: > They are not free copies and therefore, let us not call them as free copies. > It is better to say "Distributing complimentary copies of non-free ..." > The OED defines "complimentary" as "given free of charge". Wouldn't it be better to use the term "proprietary software" instead of "non-free software." You wouldn't have the confusion associated with the term "free." (Especially when the two meanings of the word occur in the same sentence.) "Distributing complimentary copies of proprietary software ..." Vijay -- ______________________________________________ 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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Free Books Publication
by Nagarjuna G. 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Please send me your preferred free book/s that you want to see in the Indian market, preferably with a link to the pdf file, title ASAP. Me and Anand Sharma are going to meet Shroff on friday afternoon. He is very keen to publish our books. Now I want to know the priorities. -- Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org> HBCSE, TIFR

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