Fsf-friends March 2007

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by ANOOP KRISHNAN

Our College (GEC CALICUT) is going to hoist a program on free software , any one know any person who can take classes on LINUX ,FREE SOFTWARE, COMPUTER NETWORKS , HACKING , SECURITY , QT etc then please mail me Anoop Krishnan G _________________________________________________________________ Slidestory, audio slideshows http://www.Slidestory.com

16 years, 8 months

Two articles about DRM, lets discuss

by Praveen A

Hi, Two more articles about DRM is added to Anti-DRM-Campaign page. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign#Articles 1) Who Controls Your Television? http://www.eff.org/IP/DVB/dvb_briefing_paper.php 2) EU Commissioner criticizes iPod-iTunes tie-in http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070311-eu-commissioner-criticizes-ip… Check out those and you will get an idea of the issues about DRM. Lets discuss any points which are not clear. It is very important that we understand the issues about DRM so that we can tell our friends about the issues and also fight for our rights. We should not be lazy thinking that it is just in Europe or US, it is only a matter of time they will be here too unless we are watchful. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

16 years, 8 months

The game may well be over...

by CK Raju, Thrissur

VSNL, India's flagship internet bandwidth provider for ISPs is now a sleeping-ally of Microsoft. Strategic alliances have been forged on many fronts (the latest for messaging services, yesterday). Reliance, which controls FLAG, has stakes in VSNL - its chief is the former chief of VSNL - also is a strategic partner of Microsoft for testing/deploying of Microsoft based internet services. The major Indian internet bandwith gateways are now within the operational command of Microsoft. Whatever information now originates for an outside world, or is received here from an outside world, is at the mercy of this corporate. What a smooth takeover... with UPA in power at centre, supported by Left (mauled, only when there is a dispute over which territory should have university). We can continue our discussion on Free Software in markets, Free software in schools, Free software in e-governance etc in peace, because the game, I presume, is already over. CK Raju, Thrissur

16 years, 8 months

An Ethical Question.

by cvr3＠river-valley.org

A specific question which many Linux solution providers keep asking me. The question relates to the client side applications NOT the server. When Linux business solution providers go to Govt. organisations they are confronted with the bleak scenario of all the systems being under M$. Since their solutions are "standalone" and built with Linux libraries such as GTK, QT etc. they need invariably Linux OS. Since the organisations are reluctant to change their existing M$ platform just to accommodate their solutions (even though they liked it) they are loosing that business. What I am asking is that under these circumstances is it ethically and morally correct for them to create M$ binaries of their solution using windows versions of GTK and QT libraries and install them on the M$ platform, and there by getting the business order. Already FSF is releasing all their libraries such as gcc, gtk etc for M$ too. Please think as if you are a business man providing free software solutions to make money to run a free software business. -- Rajagopal CV

16 years, 8 months

Top three most important events in the history of Free Software

by Krishna Pagadala

Hi All, Here are the three most important events in the history of Free Software. 1. FSF is founded in 1984 2. Linux released in 1991 3. OpenOffice released in 2000 Whats on your list of top 3 historical events? Regards, Krishna ===================================== Misinterpreting Copyright by Richard Stallman http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html "Die Gedanken Sind Frei": Free Software and the Struggle for Free Thought by Eben Moglen http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.html . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html

16 years, 8 months

minix --the father of linux

by Kussh

came to know about minix3 http://www.minix3.org/ from one of google's ads kussh

16 years, 8 months

[Fwd: [A2k] $250, 000 Open Architecture Prize prize for developing world.]

by Anivar Aravind

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [A2k] $250,000 Open Architecture Prize prize for developing world. Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:33:16 -0400 From: James Love <james.love(a)cptech.org> To: Ip-health <ip-health(a)lists.essential.org>, a2k discuss list <a2k(a)lists.essential.org> Begin forwarded message: From: Architecture for Humanity <cameron(a)architectureforhumanity.org> Date: March 12, 2007 7:35:02 AM EDT To: "James Love" <love(a)cptech.org> Subject: $250,000 Open Architecture Prize announced. http://www.icebase.com/go.shtml?20070312033411655773&m29930&http:// www.icebase.com/r.pl? AMD and Architecture for Humanity establish the Open Architecture Prize $250,000 prize to develop technology center in developing world. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Architecture for Humanity has announced the first ever Open Architecture Prize. $250,000 will be awarded to the winning design of an open competition to develop technology centers in the developing world. The competition is set to launch later this year. The first great challenge for the prize will be the design of a sustainable technology facility and community center which incorporates a centralized building equipped with internet connectivity solutions designed to enable an entire community to access the transformative power of the Internet. The competition will be developed with a local community partner for a specific site and community. Once a design is selected, the prize money will be used to implement the winning scheme. Designs will also be made available through the Open Architecture Network. "The Open Architecture Prize delivers on Architecture for Humanity's vision of encouraging collaboration and challenging designers to reach beyond the traditional bounds of architecture to develop innovative solutions that improve global living conditions," said Dan Shine, director of the 50x15 Initiative, AMD. "The creative designs developed in this competition will contribute to the 50x15 Initiative's ambitious goal of connecting 50 percent of the world's population to the Internet by 2015." The network was unveiled at TED 2007 by Architecture for Humanity and a number of its technology partners, including AMD, Creative Commons, Hot Studio, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. "For far too long many great award-winning designs have gone undeveloped," said Cameron Sinclair, executive director and co- founder, Architecture for Humanity. "Through the Open Architecture Network we unveiled yesterday and the Open Architecture Prize we are announcing today, we are not only challenging the creative world to design innovative structures, we are going one step further and implementing the winning solution to positively affect thousands of lives." In addition to technology expertise and a diverse portfolio of innovative connectivity solutions, the 50x15 Initiative brings significant experience in assessing regional technology problems and deploying relevant solutions to the winning project. This expertise is essential in developing the competition criteria, as well as determining which design will empower a community to the greatest extent possible. Most importantly you HAVE to be an Open Architecture Network member to participate. So, SIGN UP and you will be the first to receive information on the competition and brief. News Humanitarian goals, tech-savvy solutions International Herald Tribune, March 12th 2007 AMD sponsors Open Architecture Prize USA Today, March 11th 2007 Big News My Heart's in Accra, March 10th 2007 Win a Prize: Build A Tech Lab Wired News, March 9th 2007 Framing Open Source Architecture Wired News, March 8th 2007 _______________________________________________ A2k mailing list A2k(a)lists.essential.org http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/a2k -- Anivar Aravind moving Republic Global Alternate Information Applications(GAIA) Peringavu.P.O Thrissur-680018 Kerala Ph. +91 9446545336

16 years, 8 months

[Fsf-friends] Summary of GNU Grazing March10, Cubbon Park, Bangalore

by Vikram Vincent| ವಿಕ್ ರಂ ವ ಿನ್ವ ೆಂಟ್

Hello All, The summary of the meeting has been put up on the wiki page. Please do update it if necessary. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/GNUs_Grazing -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=19591248

16 years, 8 months

Re: [Fsf-friends] Hall of Shame

by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal

----- Sandip Bhattacharya <sandip(a)lug-delhi.org> wrote: > > You misunderstand the Hall of Shame "rhetoric". It is not about which > site uses what technology to provider services. HoS is about not > discriminating against users of these services. Critical websites > like > governments should be accessible by all, including users of FOSS > software. That is all about our "limited" mission. Thanks for clarifying. Got it now. > > Whether a government site should proprietary technology or FOSS > software > is a different debate, and is not related to the Hall of shame > effort. Agreed. > > BTW, I personally believe that FOSS software is not everything. You > need > to have FOSS content also. So even if we have FOSS software which is > good, but not FOSS education material, what good would the software > be > to an education drive? Look around the education area, you would be a > huge amount of teaching material already in place for these > proprietary > software. I don't blame the education drive too much right now for > their > decision. They can't help their students *now* by deploying FOSS and > waiting for years for the teaching material to appear. The good thing > is > that there are many localized drives in India who are developing good > teaching material. I believe Kerala was a pioneer in it, but I don't > have any references to it right now. Once we have a worth 10+2 > content > in place, it would be difficult for any government to justify ignoring > it. So what exactly would/ should be taught as per the available study material 1) Word Processing or MS Word 2) Presentations or Powerpoint 3) Spreadsheets or Excel 4) ANSI C/ C++ or Visual C++ (usually Turbo C++) 5) Object Oriented Programming or MS .NET 6) SQL or MS SQL Server there is a difference. For each there is a free alternative. And good study material is aplenty. Generic concepts are already in place. I do blame the Govt Deptt. for lapse in their duties. -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

16 years, 8 months

kaffeine & codeine crashes

by ANOOP KRISHNAN

my kaffeine and codeine player allways crashes. I am using Debian etch and 2.6.16 & 2.6.15 kernel . any one please answer me. KRISHNA (Anoop krishnan G) _________________________________________________________________ Slidestory, audio slideshows http://www.Slidestory.com

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