Fsf-friends June 2004

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GPL-Virus Or Vaccine
by Raj Shekhar 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Hello @ all I have put an article on the Linux India Wiki called GPL-Virus Or Vaccine . http://lug-bhopal.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/GPL-VirusOrVaccine <quote> A common refrain that I keep hearing on the mailing lists and the websites is how the GNU General Public License ( http://www.fsf.org/licenses/licenses.html#TOCGPL), henceforth referred to as GPL, is viral. Microsoft, SCO and clueless marketing drones have added their share of fuel to this smear campaign, making companies and managers wary of choosing GPL licensed products. A virus is a parasitic microorganism that can make humans or computers sick; comparing anything with a virus is a nasty accusation. Usually the accusers provide no justifications on why has not tried to justify this accusation. Let us therefore try to investigate whether the GPL is really like a virus. </quote> Please have a look at it and let me know what you all think. Better still, you can edit the article (since it is on Wiki) to share your ideas. If you are new to wiki you can learn on how to use the wiki from here http://lug-bhopal.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/HowToUseWiki Regards -- / \__ ( @\___ Raj Shekhar / O My home : http://geocities.com/lunatech3007/ / (_____/ My blog : http://lunatech.journalspace.com/ /_____/ U

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Free S/w in Education
by Mahesh T. Pai 05 Jun '04

05 Jun '04

State of the IT syllabus in the States :- http://www.newsforge.com/business/04/05/26/0146253.shtml Iseems that inclusion of f/s in the syllabus is demand driven; the `you learn what we tell you to study' approach is only for non-free s/w. -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com ~/\$ mv -vfi linux gnu/linux

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Re: [fsug-kochi-discuss] M$ patented double lick
by Mahesh T. Pai 05 Jun '04

05 Jun '04

Anivar Aravind said on Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:52:10PM +0800,: > I must say that in my entire life, I've never seen anything quite as > stupid as what M$ has done this week -- i.e.patenting "clicking > technology". Groklaw has an excellent article on this; see http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040605025933409 > I think I'll figure out a way to take an old Atari 2600 joystick > and turn it into a clickless mouse.... Nah. No chance. Patents like this cover *concepts*. Not things. It covers double clicks. At first glance, this patent covers even the pause `button' on the tape recorder your gran presented you. Have a sleepless night!!! -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

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Sourceforge.net needs a mirror site in India!
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Be a SF.net download mirror (South America / India) --------------------------------------------- SourceForge.net is looking to add a mirror in a South American country and India. If you have a *lot* of bandwidth (enough to provide the mirror a minimum of 40Mbps) and approximately a terabyte of available disk space, we'd like to hear from you. Besides helping SourceForge.net and the open source community, your organization will be listed on SF.net's download page, which is accessed approximately 1,500,000 times per day. If you have interest, please email pat(a)sf.net. Set the email subject to "bandwidth." Please include information about your company or organization and your bandwidth in the email. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================== You receive this message because you subscribed to SourceForge site mailing(s). -- --------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa, India f r e d @ b y t e s f o r a l l . o r g Ph 832.2409490 / 832.2409783 Cell 9822 122436 784 Near Lourdes Convent, Sonarbhat, Saligao 403511 Goa ---------------------------------------------------------

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My Share Manager
by rajeev joseph sebastian 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hello Frederick, Couldnt find anything except a couple of emails on the ilug-indore group homepage: probably because im not a member. hjave you tried GnuCash ? i think it has support for stocks and shares. But im not too sure ... Rajeev J Sebastian > Could anyone offer feedback to Farooqui's work? Tks, > FN > > On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui > wrote: > > > > dear sir, > > > > I'm an independent > developer(c++,linux,qt,mysql,java) . I have > developed an > > accouting software using Qt and mysql for small > investors > > , which keep track of their investments. Free > edotion is availble to download > > from groups.yahoo.com\ilug-indore. Also > screenshots of paid version is also > > there. > > Thanks. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2
by rajeev joseph sebastian 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

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[Fsf-friends] Free Software seems to have found a way to do that, but...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

THE INTERNET came with a promise that "everybody can be a publisher". Although not everybody wants to be a publisher, those who actually do, find it hard to make it work. As it turns out, this promise is only true in an extremely limited, technical sense. Yes, I can set up a website, or put my song on the Net, but what next? The problem becomes not so much technical as social -- there is a lot of sharing, but little in terms of making a living. Money remains squarely in the hands of the old industry. The issue of distribution is not just an economic question. It's also a political one. At stake is the 'semiotic democracy', that is the ability of the largest number of people to create and share culture freely. It is about making sure that despite of heavy-hitting marketing machines, new, independent content can still fill its audience. In short, the question is how do innovative production and distribution come together to support each other. Free Software seems to have found a way to do just that, but what about the rest of cultural production? How do we get from technological visions to actual cultures that are open yet sustainable in a climate where funding runs short? FreeBitflows will bring together artists, researchers, activists, and hackers from Europe and beyond to investigate current strategies to build sustainable, open and experimental cultures through electronic media. A conference, workshops, performances and an exhibition will examine cultures of access and the politics of dissemination from a broad range of perspectives. http://freebitflows.t0.or.at S P E A K E R S Ian Clarke (IE/US) architect and coordinator of the Freenet project http://www.freenetproject.org Marco Deserlis (IT) freelance journalist, Internet critic and media activist http://www.thething.it http://www.d-i-n-a.net Volker Grassmuck (DE) researcher at the Humbold University Berlin and initiator of the Wizards of OS conference. http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck/ Menno Grootveld (NL) co-founder of the former pirate TV channel Robotnik TV and co-founder of the festival for tactical media, Next 5 Minutes. http://www.next5minutes.org Bjoern Hartmann (DE/FR) conceived the Net label textone.org http://www.textone.org http://www.bjoern.org Reni Hofmueller (AT) media artist and activist http://helsinki.at http://www.mur.at Brewster Kahle (US) founder and digital librarian for the Internat Archive (IA) http://www.archive.org Paula Le Dieu (UK) project director of the Creative Archive, a BBC initiative to distribute its audio and video archival content in ways that allows the UK public to use it to fuel their own creative endeavours http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/03_march/02/on_… Pauline van Mourik Broekman (UK) founding co-editor and co-publisher of the techno culture magazine Mute, co-founded as "the Arts and Technology Newspaper" in 1994. http://www.metamute.com/ http://www.openmute.org Sjoera Nas (NL) works with Bits of Freedom, a not-for-profit privacy and civil rights organisation http://www.edri.org or http://www.bof.nl Istvan Rev (HU) professor of History and Political Science, Central European University, Budapest http://www.osa.ceu.hu Janko Roettgers (DE/US) writes for on- and offline-media about net culture, net policy and music on the Internet. http://www.mixburnrip.de http://www.lowpass.de Thorsten Schilling (DE) founder and president of mikro.org also http://www.bpb.de Pit Schultz (DE) author, artist and computer professional. Co-founder of Bootlab, Berlin and before that the mailing list Nettime. Currently, project manager for reboot.fm, a Berlin-based open radio http://www.Bootlab.org or http://www.reboot.fm Wendy Selzer (US) staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she focusses on intellectual property an dfree speech issues. http://www.eff.org http://cyber.law.havard.edu/seltzer.html Kristin Thomas (US) research director and organizer with The Future of Music Coalition and works for a DC-based PR firm. http://www.futureofmusic.org Exhibitions run from June 3 to 17, 2004. Locations: Semperdepot, K-Hause, Temporary locations: Karlsplatz, Vienna. POSTED VIA: -- --------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa, India f r e d @ b y t e s f o r a l l . o r g Ph 832.2409490 / 832.2409783 Cell 9822 122436 784 Near Lourdes Convent, Sonarbhat, Saligao 403511 Goa ---------------------------------------------------------

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Re: my share manager
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Could anyone offer feedback to Farooqui's work? Tks, FN On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui wrote: > dear sir, > > I'm an independent developer(c++,linux,qt,mysql,java) . I have developed an > accouting software using Qt and mysql for small investors > , which keep track of their investments. Free edotion is availble to download > from groups.yahoo.com\ilug-indore. Also screenshots of paid version is also > there. > Thanks. > > _____________________________________________________________ > Linux.Net -->Open Source to everyone > Powered by Linare Corporation > http://www.linare.com/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa, India f r e d @ b y t e s f o r a l l . o r g Ph 832.2409490 / 832.2409783 Cell 9822 122436 784 Near Lourdes Convent, Sonarbhat, Saligao 403511 Goa ---------------------------------------------------------

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Hidden message
by Vsasi 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

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