Apologies for not adhering to some of the mailing list rules. Just to clarify the current misunderstanding: Our patent is for the embedded hardware; our software is entirely Open Source. I guess I should have made that distinction more obvious.
Also, thanks for the feedback; will use [job] annotation next time. Have an awesome week everyone
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*...or directly at: 254, A-Z Industrial Estate G. K. Marg Lower Parel 400013 Mumbai * On 4 October 2010 11:33, Balachandran Sivakumar benignbala@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Kenneth,
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 10:09 +0530, Mitul Limbani wrote:
please make up your mind - are you talking about GNU/Linux or about Linux? I have never heard of 'GNU Linux'.
"GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India"
This is how the list shows up(at least in Gmail). And if youhave never heard GNU Linux, its your problem. We are in a GLUG and GNU/Linux is perfectly fine. Its because of the vision of RMS/FSF/GNU we are talking about free software now. True that we have Apache, Mozilla and a dozen other groups. But the initial initiative and push was from GNU and they have huge contributions to their credit(GCC,GDB etc.). And, Linux, to me and to quite a few others, means the kernel. And the OS has been termed GNU/Linux by a lot of people. No one asks you to call it GNU/Linux. But don't force your view on others by asking others to call it Linux.
Lets not define new rules just based on personal preferences @ Kenneth.
Software patents are really bad. The fundamentalphilosophy of GNU is free software, with free as in free speech. Software patents and proprietary software should never be encouraged. Thanks
-- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar
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