Dear All,
As part of Centre for Internet and Society's (CIS') project on software
patents, we need your technical expertise and assistance in getting answers
for a few questions relating to software applications. If you have any
information on any of the following questions, please let us know. Your help
is greatly appreciated!
Here are the questions:
I. What are the features in Oracle, SQL server, Lotus Notes, or any version
control software in existence prior to August 2005 which provided for:
1.
replication or database synchronization? Was this on a peer to peer
basis?
2.
Synchronization via a secure channel?
3.
Access control facility during database synchronisation?
4.
Interface component in an application for database synchronisation?
5.
Database synchronisation within a data storage system or an intranet?
6.
Tracking changes in data on a peer to peer basis during data
synchronization?
7.
A user to offer and accept invitations for synchronization of data within
a data storage system he was part of?
8.
Maintenance of a membership list, modification of membership list for a
community of users who could synchronize their data on a peer to peer basis?
Thanks & Regards
Krithika
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Krithika Dutta Narayana
Program Associate
The Centre for Internet and Society
Bangalore
http://www.cis-india.org
Dear all,
As some of you might be aware, CIS has commissioned Anuj Puri, a
respected competition law attorney, to write a report on software
practices and competition law in India. That report can then be used as
a basis for legal interventions before the Competition Commission of
India. Mr. Puri wanted the help of the FOSS community in getting
evidence about practices. He needs our help in getting more details on
the following fronts:
> 1. How are the software priced?
> If we have to allege predatory pricing on the part of any firm, we need to know if we can predict their average variable cost or marginal cost.
>
> 2. How are they sold or licensed- details of bulk discount, bundling?
> I would require some evidence of the default internet browser, media player, etc., sold in tandem with the OS. The best I have at the moment is an OS vendor's website which is really short on details. Similar evidence of exclusive tie-up between any OS vendor and an OEM would be extremely helpful.
>
> 3. Predatory pricing instances.
> Newspaper reports, other data illustrating where software, OS or hardware have been supplied free of cost or below cost to state agencies.
I would request people to send in material (scanned newspaper clippings,
links, etc.) to substantiate the above, and evidence of any other
practice that they feel might be violative of our competition law.
Please spread the word around on other mailing lists as well, and help
us get as much detail as possible.
Regards,
Pranesh
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Pranesh Prakash
Programme Manager
Centre for Internet and Society
W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
Hi all,
Bangalore Open Source Hardware User Group is planning to have meet-up as
follow:
Purpose: Introduction & demonstration of Amarino Toolkit by Sudar
Amarino is a toolkit to connect Android-driven mobile devices with Arduino
microcontrollers via Bluetooth. The toolkit provides easy access to internal
phone events which can be further processed on the Arduino open-source
prototyping platform. More information is available at
http://www.amarino-toolkit.net/
Date: 27th Nov 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 6:00 PM to ~8:00 PM
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=166841830014747
Venue: Jaaga, Rhenius Street, Off Richmond Road, Opposite the Hockey
Association Stadium Main Gate, Shanthinagar, Bangalore
Venue Link: http://jaaga.wikidot.com/contact (along with MUST SEE MAP)
Venue phone: 9945702482 (Deepan)
Google Maps Link: http://goo.gl/oElS
Navigation Tip: From Richmond Road take a left right next to the Cafe
Coffee Day and proceed straight till hockey stadium gate. Jaaga is opposite
to hockey stadium gate in Rhenius street.
See you,
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"I will contribute 500 Indian Rupees (or 10 USD) to Chamba Swathanthra
Cinema Project but only if 100 other people will do the same."
— Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Coordinator for Chamba Project
Deadline to sign up by: 1st January 2011
20 people have signed up, 80 more needed
More details
Chamba project (http://www.chambaproject.in) is an ambitious effort to
create a Swathanthra (Free/Libre) Animation Movie by pooling in
contributions from people around the world and funding artists
directly. It is an initiative to experiment and explore a more
collaborative and open approach to film making, aiming to be
appealing, easy to be a part of and easy to contribute for hobbyists,
enthusiasts and professionals alike using FOSS tools, resources, and
the power of social networking.
A donation system will be setup at
http://www.chambaproject.in/contribute/ when we are ready to accept money.
You can add your name to the pledge at http://www.pledgebank.com/chambaproject
There are other ways you can help as well. See
http://www.chambaproject.in/contribute/ for different ways of helping
out. This is not just a movie project, it is a whole different way of
creating culture, some models of which we are already familiar like
Free Software, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, this time we are onto film
making.
We need to reach out to maximum number of people and being a community
initiative we depend on you to help us promote this project. Did you
blog about this project? Did you share news about this project with
your friends, colleagues, facebook/orkut/twitter/identi.ca contacts?
Are you a good designer? Can you create good posters and banners for
this project? Make some nice ones and post it in the forum.
Think about more ideas to spread news about this project. The more
people talk about this project, the higher its impact.
Cheers
Praveen
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You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your
rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as
they follow the rules: laws and constitution.
Hi all
do any one of you have used bigbluebutton without flash player being installed
and what telephone cards work well with bigbluebutton
could some of you share your experience please
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Renuka Prasad
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