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Re: [Fsf Education] A veiwpoint about FSF's campaign
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

----- Roshan <d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > http://blogs.gnome.org/view/ryanl/2006/12/30/0 > > This article *_indirectly_* speaks about the dominance > of Non-Free software right from the early years of > computing, and also recognizes the efforts of FSF to > make users realize, that Non-Free isn't any good. > Perhaps, it speaks about being "It works!" / "It > should work whatsoever" approach. > > -- > FSF-India Fellow Associate > http://www.gnu.org.in > So whats new is in this new article! Let me put it this way too, economics dictate the terms, and i can atleast predict the future where creating and maintaining any sufficienty complex proprietary software system is going to be very very expensive in comparison to free(dom) software. A time will come, when in comparison to past, when we would have used few free software with maybe a completely proprietary operating system, to a completely free(dom) operating software with maybe some marginal, unimportant and optional binary only blobs. And those binary only blobs would be cheaper to maintain for short time periods for the short sighted companies. And regarding one example of a binary only blob in case of Atheros based wifi card that atheros declined to open up (for madwifi GPLed drivers), now there is a community supported GPLed replacement (though still in beta). Its only a matter of time. Maybe others in list can site more such examples. And regarding binary only windoz blobs (lets say device driver in windoz), i have seen/ heard many horror stories where the manufacturer stopped providing driver support for newer versions of windoz, for perfectly working hardware devices, which are now more or less useless in newer versions of windoz. Webcams/ TV tuner cards/ 3d cards/ win modems etc etc.. I too have a 3dfx voodoo card in an old but good faithful machine that may not work in newer version of windowz, the manufacturing company is already dead and I cant see any binary blob to help me out on windoz in case I install anything better than windoz 2000-2(98). Regarding the above sites blog, i would consider it as a **transition only** phase. -- 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

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A veiwpoint about FSF's campaign
by Roshan 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

http://blogs.gnome.org/view/ryanl/2006/12/30/0 This article *_indirectly_* speaks about the dominance of Non-Free software right from the early years of computing, and also recognizes the efforts of FSF to make users realize, that Non-Free isn't any good. Perhaps, it speaks about being "It works!" / "It should work whatsoever" approach. -- FSF-India Fellow Associate http://www.gnu.org.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Join the DRM Elimination Crew now !
by പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) is a technology that affects all users of computers, media players, mobile phones and other devices. "'Your devices don't trust you!' is the basic message of DRM. In fact they trust you so little that they will not even tell you that they put you under surveillance," says Joachim Jakobs, FSFE's media coordinator. [1]<http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q4/000157.html> "If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've already failed," says Peter Lee, an executive at Disney. [2]<http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4342418> "DRM technologies are based on the principle that a third party has more influence over your devices than you, and that their interests will override yours when they come in conflict. That is even true where your interest is perfectly legitimate and legal, and possibly also for your own data," explains Georg Greve, FSFE's president. [3]<http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q4/000157.html> Join the campaign to eliminate DRM http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign Also act against the amendmend to Indian Copyright law for DRM http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign/Proposed-Amenments Cheers Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Kartik Mistry: Events to watch out for!
by Frederick Noronha 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

http://kartikmistry.org/blog/?p=293 Events to watch out! January 15 Lots of things happening in the coming days. Watch out for Creative Commons launch of India [1] at IITB on 26th January and GNUnify 2007 [2] on next two days. And SELF conference [3] at HBCSE on 2nd February! For those who are in or near Bangalore, the first Indian Python Conference [4] is happening at full pace! [1] http://www.cc-india.org/?p=22 [2] http://gnunify.symbiosiscomputers.com/ [3] http://www.selfplatform.org/en/agenda [4] http://bangpypers.org/ -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com

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A graphic map...
by Frederick Noronha 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

A graphic map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the Empire of Microsoft http://mshiltonj.com/software_wars/current/ -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com

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gnu.org.in down?
by Roshan 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Hello, I have been trying to access www.gnu.org.in, but there seems to be a database connection? Is a different CMS planned to be used for the website? -- FSF-India Fellow Associate http://www.gnu.org.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Report on Economic impact of FOSS
by V. Sasi Kumar 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

• FLOSS applications are first, second or third-rung products in terms of market share in several markets, including web servers, server operating systems, desktop operating systems, web browsers, databases, e-mail and other ICT infrastructure systems. FLOSS market share higher in Europe than in the US for operating systems and PCs, followed by Asia. These market shares have seen considerable growth in the past five years. • FLOSS market penetration is also high – a large share of private and public organisations report some use of FLOSS in most application domains. In the public sector, Europe has particularly high penetration, perhaps soon to be overtaken by Asia and Latin America. In the private sector, FLOSS adoption is driven by medium- and large-sized firms. • Almost two-thirds of FLOSS software is still written by individuals; firms contribute about 15% and other institutions another 20%. • Europe is the leading region in terms of globally collaborating FLOSS software developers, and leads in terms of global project leaders, followed closely by North America (interestingly, more in the East Coast than the West). Asia and Latin America face disadvantages at least partly due to language barriers, but may have an increasing share of developers active in local communities. • Weighted by regional PC penetration, central Europe and Scandinavia provide disproportionately high numbers of developers; weighted by average income, India is the leading provider of FLOSS developers by far, followed by China. • While the U.S. has the edge in terms of large FLOSS-related businesses, the greater individual contribution from Europe has led to an increasing number of globally successful European FLOSS small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These are from the report on "Economic impact of FLOSS on innovation and competitiveness of the EU ICT sector". See http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Atmospheric Sciences Division Centre for Earth Science Studies PB No. 7250, Thuruvikkal PO Thiruvananthapuram 695031, India -- V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsf(a)gmail.com> Free Software Foundation of India

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Re: [Fsf-friends] CAG takes IKM to new heights !
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 13 Jan '07

13 Jan '07

>IKM is recruiting 101 fresh candidates on consolidated pay > Senior Project Laders-3 > Project Leaders-6 That could be part of IKM strategy to keep at bay the professionals from pointing foul at their proprietary tendencies. Once inside their applicant's list or merit list, the voices of dissenting professionals can be reduced to a minimum. Advts like these are common from IKM whenever there is a *main issue* centered around Free Software in Kerala - like a national workshop, an international conference, a visit by RMS etc. CK Raju Thrissur

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Science, Education and Learning in Freedom, and gnowledge portal launch
by Nagarjuna G. 13 Jan '07

13 Jan '07

A one day conference on "Science, Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF)" is being organized by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR on 2nd February 2007, at Homi Bhabha Auditorium, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai, India. At this conference distinguished speakers from around the world will talk about free software, free knowledge and open standards, specifically in the context of science and education. On the same occasion, a multilingual community portal (gnowledge.org) of free knowledge for education, developed by the computer laboratory of HBCSE, TIFR will also be launched. A snapshop version of the portal will be distributed on a DVD at the conferencee, which includes offline content of wikipedia.org. The conference will take place from 9am till 6pm, and will have four main sessions. * Inauguration and Launching of the community portal: http://gnowledge.org * Introduction to "SELF: Science, Education and Learning in Freedom" European Commission Project, http://selfproject.eu * CopyLeft in Science, Education and Culture * Protecting Knowledge: Open Standards and Copyleft The conference is open for registration. Please read the full announcement, list of speakers, schedule, venue, registration details etc. at http://self.gnowledge.org/. Please circulate this information to your friends, put it up on your notice boards. Thanks -- SELF Conference Team Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

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Ubuntu Edgy CDs are now available
by Aanjhan R 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hello Friends, The Ubuntu-India team is delighted to announce that we have got a shipment of the Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft CDs. We are willing to share this with the LUGs around us and have created a Wiki page with respect to this. You can include your requirements there. What we have in hand are Ubuntu Edgy Desktop CDs (and its variants Kubuntu and Edubuntu for both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures), which are Live CDs with a GUI installer along with it. If you need to install on computers with less than 192 MB of RAM or need to upgrade from an earlier version of Ubuntu, 6.06 LTS ``Dapper Drake'', then we suggest you to download the `Alternate CD' from the Ubuntu Mirror sites. The Wiki link is below http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/EdgyCdRequests We will try our best to meet your requirements depending upon the overall requests from other LUGs as well. Thanking You, Ubuntu-India Team

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