Fsf-friends April 2006

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Ankit Fadia : The real picture
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

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 fetched and he got more media attention then he actually deserved. he built a brand and now selling it, even it is more or less fake. But for a 16 year old, that he was, it was/ is an achievement by his time, atleast we should appriciate that, but nothing more, and the 16 year old, now 20 something, must realise that he has to grow and be more than an ankle biter. Same can I say about some other authors, though not as bad as fadia, who is very very popular in the script kiddy/ haxor wannbe C/C++ student community, some one with a sir name starting with a **K**, from Pune, author of a number of books on C/ C++ / C++ Projects and pointers and a lot many others. Except for maybe one books the rest need a lot of improvements but he sells. These people have skills, and should get the respect that is worth to them, but their claim to fame is usually over hyped and more that they actually deserve. But still these people deserver **some** respect and no more. Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Steeve <joe_steeve(a)gmx.net> To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Sent: à¨µà©à¨°à¨µà¨¾à¨° 06 à¨à¨ªà¨°à©à¨² 2006 12:30:34 à¨¸5à©à¨°à© IST Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Ankit Fadia : The real picture Ajay Pal Singh Atwal <ajaypal(a)bbsbec.org> writes: > Oh well, he is coming to my department in i guess a week or so > and charging INR 250/- per seat (though I am not sure), I will oh my gawd. Heh., not only is he dumb., he is making quite a good business out of it too.. > post back my response, its already too late to say no, and > people are too eager to shell out money, but I will make sure a > spade is called a spade. Pound him with questions. -- ..O. A proud GNU user ...O OOO http://www.joesteeve.org/ --

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Re Re: [Fsf-friends] Ankit Fadia : The real picture
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

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 --------Original Message ------- 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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Re: [Fsf-friends] Ankit Fadia : The real picture
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Oh well, he is coming to my department in i guess a week or so and charging INR 250/- per seat (though I am not sure), I will post back my response, its already too late to say no, and people are too eager to shell out money, but I will make sure a spade is called a spade. But ofcourse after reading some parts (I didnt had the courage to read the whole) of his FIRST book from my institute library I alread have this notion (for around an year), he is or was an ankle biter and is trying to create more ankle biters but no real hackers/ crackers. BTW here are the actual links of amazon reviews about fadia books If mailman is kind enough not to trim the links http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/1931841721/ref=cm_cr_dp_2… http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/1592000452/ref=cm_cr_dp_2… Better than the books I guess :-) Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in -------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose(a)gnu.org.in> To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Sent: à¨¬à©à©±à¨§à¨µà¨¾à¨° 05 à¨à¨ªà¨°à©à¨² 2006 04:33:27 à¨¶à¨¾. IST Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Ankit Fadia : The real picture -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Prabhat, > Yesterday (03-04-2006)I attended a seminar by a so-called "Hacking > Guru" Ankit Fadia, at DAVV, Indore (MP) auditorium. I just want to > share my feelings with you. Very well written. You only reaffirmed what we have believed ever since this Ankit Fadia hype was created. I guess it's time we started educating people about these ``quacks''. All his achievements and claims to fame are just plain lies and he has no way to prove them otherwise. He has earned a shit-load of money selling his heavily plagiarised books and now is studying some course in Stanford. It's actually not so easy to disprove the myths associated with him ... the best we can do is to ignore him. We have a lot more ``real hacking'' to do than even think about script kiddies like Fadia. Just ignore him ... the world will realise. Soon. Regards, BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose(a)gnu.org.in> Free Software Foundation of India http://www.gnu.org.in/ 1024D/86361B74 BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEM6P+Qkk0lIY2G3QRAiJvAKCjrnnhEc04Je1Ija6yYwKEbaeP6wCbBNRt KtBMElzbRU6Hbba4Rto2S+g= =TSfu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends --

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by jayanta chakraborty 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

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Amendments proposed to the Copyrights Act
by Ramanraj K 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

The Registrar of Copyrights, Copyright Division of the Department of Secondary & Higher Education under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, has issued a notification inviting suggestions and amendments to the Copyright Act, 1957. It is available online at www.copyright.gov.in, along with a list of the proposed amendments. A new Section 65A for "Protection of Technological Measures" providing that "any person who circumvents an effective technological measure applied for the purpose of protecting any of the rights conferred by ths Act, with the intention of infringing such rights, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extent to two years and shall also be liable to fine." While Section 63 already imposes stringent punishment for infringement of copyright, defining "copyright infringement" in very clear terms under Section 51, the propsed Section 65A is vague and seeks to punish licencees in an arbitrary manner. Further more, changes to Section 52 have also been proposed. The effects of these and other changes proposed may need to be carefully studied and analysed. Earlier, a memorandum was sent to CSIR, requesting them to publish all their research under open formats and licenses promoting public use. This may be the right occasion to send in suggestions in response to the notification, so that the Copyright Act, by default, makes the works of all Public and Educational Institutions freely available to the public using open standards. There is a need to encourage authors to release their works under the GPL, FDL or other general public licenses, and the Registry may make provision for free online registration, publication and download in such cases (probably, with just a cvs). Please send in suggestions to improve, strengthen and safeguard the rights and works of authors contributing to the general public domain. Ramanraj K

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 36, Issue 1
by Mishi Choudhary 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

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

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 36, Issue 1
by Mishi Choudhary 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

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GPLv3 awareness: transcripts of Stallman and Moglen
by Ciaran O'Riordan 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

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. -- Ciarán O'Riordan ______________________ \ To support free software, join http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _____________ \ and tell others about FSFE's http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org

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most popular linux applications
by Kush 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I hope we can find the latest news on the best packages in linux. I > have found this link for some most popular applications in linux in 2005. > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?f=69 > Kush

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