Lets get realistic.
This list about talking on GNU Linux and anything that has to do with Linux.
Lets not define new rules just based on personal preferences @ Kenneth.
Regards, Mitul Limbani
Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 12:53 +0530, Paul Schwarz wrote:
My name is Paul and I am a new member of the Linuxers mailing list. I am co-founder of En Route Media, a Digital Signage Startup, based out of Mumbai. We have developed proprietary embedded hardware and software (Linux Debian frontend, PHP/mySQL backend); patent pending,
please put a [job] or [commercial] tag in such mails. And talking about proprietary embedded software and patents is a big no no on this list. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 10:09 +0530, Mitul Limbani wrote:
Lets get realistic.
This list about talking on GNU Linux and anything that has to do with Linux.
please make up your mind - are you talking about GNU/Linux or about Linux? I have never heard of 'GNU Linux'.
Lets not define new rules just based on personal preferences @ Kenneth.
I think you misunderstood me - I have not made a new rule, or cited an existing rule. I just observed that touting proprietary software, software patents on this rule is going to be mercilessly flamed.
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 you have 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 fundamental philosophy of GNU is free software, with free as in free speech. Software patents and proprietary software should never be encouraged. Thanks
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
_________________________ Paul Schwarz * Co-Founder of En Route Media*
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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
Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached.
Mail: benignbala@gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:33 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar 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.
please *read* before reacting - even RMS does not use the term 'GNU Linux' (read as GNU-space-Linux). He uses the term 'GNU-slash-Linux'. So it is not *my* problem. It is your problem ;-)
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:43 +0530, Paul Schwarz wrote:
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.
cool - you just avoided a 100 mail thread ;-)
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:33 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote:
please *read* before reacting - even RMS does not use the term 'GNU Linux' (read as GNU-space-Linux). He uses the term 'GNU-slash-Linux'. So it is not *my* problem. It is your problem ;-)
Ah, got it. I apologise. I just intended to say GNU/Linux(GNU-slash-Linux) is correct and it need not be just Linux. I didn't intend to mean GNU-space-Linux.Thanks
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