Why not attempt seriously to bring him up as a Free Software Developer ? Throw some serious task in his own *area of expertise* to solve. I think instead of bashing him or involving him in some kind of flame war, this would be a better way. He already has some "child prodigy fame", after certain media persons promoted him early on, but this is where he could really make a mark.
CK Raju
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On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 01:41 +0530, Ajay Pal Singh Atwal wrote:
> Ok I may disagree a little here, I do sincerely think fadia may not be foolish or dumb, but his claim to faim may be a little too far
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Hello everyone
firstly,thnx ciaran ,the transcripts re quite useful.it makes a lot of sense to read them this way.
secondly i hear fsf india is organising an event somewhere in asugust where prof moglen is visiting,can anyone tell me more about the same?
Warm Regards
Mishi Choudhary
Hello everyone
firstly,thnx ciaran ,the transcripts re quite useful.it makes a lot of sense to read them this way.
secondly i hear fsf india is organising an event somewhere in asugust where prof moglen is visiting,can anyone tell me more about the same?
Warm Regards
Mishi Choudhary
Hello everyone.
RMS recently gave a speech about GPLv3 in Italy. It was a good speech, and
the Q&A was interesting, so I made a transcript:
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript.en.html
I also made a transcript of the long GPLv3 presentation given by Eben Moglen
on January 16th, when the draft of GPLv3 was first released:
http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html
I made these as part of my work on FSFE's project to assist the GPLv3
consultation process, and I'm sending the links here because they might be
useful for people who are working on GPLv3 awareness in India.
When the GPLv3 process was launched, there were only two experts: Stallman
and Moglen. We need information about GPLv3 to spread to every part of the
world, and we have a time limit, so hopefully the transcripts will:
1. Maximise the reach of the work of the two experts
2. Provide learning materials to make new experts (you!)
I also made a transcript of a short (25 minute) GPLv3 presentation which
Richard made at FOSDEM in February:
http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-gplv3-2006-02-25.html
On the GPLv3 wiki, I've made a page for collecting similar materials:
http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Reusable_texts
And more info on FSFE's GPLv3 awareness work can be found here:
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/gplv3.en.html
When I made these materials, I informed many free software communities in
Europe because that's where I'm active. I didn't inform the free software
communities in India - I wouldn't know how. Hopefully others here who wish
to help spread GPLv3 awareness will find these useful.
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