good news man! thanx for the info.
Au Revoir
Bhaskar
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> Subject: [Fsf-friends] a new road for AMD and ATI
> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 00:26:14 +0530
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> http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=302
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> AMD is making the commitment to do two major things:
>
> * To develop of a fully functional 2D and 3D driver that supports
> all of their newer radeon chipsets. This will be done in full
> collaboration with the open source community and will have the direct
> participation of hackers from companies like Red Hat and Novell.
> * To release documentation that anyone can use to build and
> support drivers for their chips.
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> Regards,
> Debarshi
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dear all,
just discovered this, thought it worthy to share with you:
"Things can be copyrighted,
thoughts cannot be copyrighted,
and certainly meditations cannot be copyrighted.
They are not things of the marketplace. Nobody can monopolize anything.
But perhaps the West cannot understand the difference between an
objective commodity and an inner experience.
For ten thousand years the East has been meditating
and nobody has put trademarks upon meditations."
- Osho
http://oshoworld.com/copyleft/copyleft.asp
as a private study, have been researching past two years on the indian
philosophical view and 'darshan' on copyrights. haven't found much.
anyone else stumbled across something?
:-)
niyam
http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=302
AMD is making the commitment to do two major things:
* To develop of a fully functional 2D and 3D driver that supports
all of their newer radeon chipsets. This will be done in full
collaboration with the open source community and will have the direct
participation of hackers from companies like Red Hat and Novell.
* To release documentation that anyone can use to build and
support drivers for their chips.
Regards,
Debarshi
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Key server: pgp.mit.edu
Great News! Hats off to all who worked hard for this.
"The five-month ballot process ended on 2 September and was open to
the IEC and ISO national member bodies from 104 countries, including
41 that are participating members of the joint ISO/IEC technical
committee, JTC 1, Information technology.
Approval requires at least 2/3 (i.e. 66.66 %) of the votes cast by
national bodies participating in ISO/IEC JTC 1 to be positive; and no
more than 1/4 (i.e. 25 %) of the total number of national body votes
cast negative. Neither of these criteria were achieved, with 53 % of
votes cast by national bodies participating in ISO/IEC JTC 1 being
positive and 26 % of national votes cast being negative."
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1070
Cheers
Praveen
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Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now!
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign
Hi all,
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR) is participating in an
international project "SELF: Science, Education and Learning in
Freedom", wherein we are developing an E-learning Platform. It has
been planned by all the partners that the SELF Platform will be
launched simultaneously all over the world for the community. In India
we have scheduled the official launch of the SELF Platform on
September 7, 2007 (3-6 pm), in some countries it is happening on 5th and
6th.
On this occassion, we cordially invite you to participate in the
official launch of an E-learning Platform developed by Homi Bhabha
Centre for Science Education (TIFR).
Program Schedule :
3:00 - 3:30 Welcome Address
Prof. Arvind Kumar
Centre Director
Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education
3:30 - 4:00 SELF Platform Launch
Prof. Shobo Bhattacharya
Director
Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research
4:00 - 4:30 Keynote Address on FOSS & Collaborative Culture
Prof. D. B. Phatak
Subharao M. Nilekani Chiar Professor
Kanwal Rekhi Institute of Information Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
4:30 - 5:00 Special lecture on Semantic Web and Collaborative E-learning
Prof. G. Sivakumar
Professor and Head, Computer Science and Engineering Department
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
5:00 -5:30 Live Demonstration of the SELF Platform
SELF Platform Development Team
Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education
5:30 - 6:00 Vote of Thanks & High Tea
Venue:
Shri V. G. Kulkarni Auditorium
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai 88
RSVP:
self(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in
hbcse(a)selfproject.eu
25555242/25554712
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About the SELF Project: http://www.selfproject.eu
SELF: Science, Education and Learning in Freedom
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), TIFR is
participating in an European Commission funded project on Science,
Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF) from July 1, 2006 to July
2008. The SELF platform is initiated by an international consortium of
seven partners --- three universities: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(Spain), University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Homi Bhabha Centre for
Science Education (India); and four non-profit organisations active as
Free Software advocates: Internet Society (Netherlands), Free Software
Foundation Europe (in all European countries), Internet Society
(Bulgaria) and Fundación Via Libre (Argentina). The SELF project aims
to provide a platform for the collaborative sharing and creation of
open educational and training materials about Free Software and Open
Standards.
About the SELF Platform: http://www.slefplatform.eu
Homi Bhabha Centre's gnowledge lab developed the SELF Platform, a graphical
web based multi-lingual platform for collaborative authoring of
courses and lessons, to organize them and distribute them widely to
various educational institutes all over the world. The SELF Platform
comprises mainly of a knowledge management application for authors,
and instructors. During the course of time, it will also have course
delivery system for learners. The SELF Platform conforms with the
e-learning standards such as LOM, SCORM. The SELF Platform comprises
of modules for authors, instructors, students. The SELF Platform will
provide information, educational and training materials in the form of
course material, e-books, instructional and educational videos,
manuals, etc. The platform caters to the target groups such
as---universities and schools, training organisations, publishers,
industrial manufacturers, free software communities, government
bodies, public and non-profit organisations, private
organisations. The SELF Platform would serve as providing a central
access for educational materials alongwith a community participation
in a multilingual environment.
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You all are welcome.
Thank you.
Nagarjuna G.
http://www.gnowledge.org/