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KalaKaumudi Article
by Manilal 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Friends, An Obscene article appeared in the recent issue of KalaKaumudi(Malayalam fortnightly, issue no:1485, Feb 15-21). The author of the article Mr. Madhu Nair(Reporting from New York) criticise Stallman in a very bad manner. He is making fun of Malayalees and says that Stallman has no disciples at Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, TamilNadu and calls him a "Smallman". Actually the article is so obsolete that it's a waste to discuss about it. Still as it gives a bad impression about Swathanthra Software and personally criticise Stallman it should be noted. Regards Manilal

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by fjsylvester 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

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[FSFE PR][EN] "Free Software Foundation defends the GNU GPL against SCO attacks" (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Milano, February 18th, 2003 - for immediate release - "Free Software Foundation defends the GNU GPL against SCO attacks" The organization that defends Free Software in Europe, Free Software Foundation Europe, has no doubt that the litigation between SCO against IBM and Novell cannot affect the users of the operating system GNU/Linux. Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia University, pro-bono general counsel of FSF North America, has published a paper that will help free software developers and end-users understand the legal issues and business risks involved in using the Linux kernel. The paper is avaible on the OSDL web site. http://www.osdl.org/docs/osdl_eben_moglen_third_statement.pdf "After selling licenses for rights in the original Unix code, the SCO Group is now suing Novell to please hand over those rights to SCO." Stefano Maffulli, Italian chancellor of FSF Europe explains. "The lawsuit shows SCO Group's uncertainty about their claims on the code in question. One could ask on what grounds they think they were suing others. In any case, their licensing campaign is obviously over," he continues. The license of the Linux kernel, the GNU General Public Licens, grants the recipients of the software the right to use, copy, modify and redistribute the software under the same terms. Many users got the Linux software from the SCO Group, even after they sued IBM in august 2003. "As both the SCO Group and Novell, through its recent acquisition SuSE, have been distributing copies of the GNU/Linux system -- including the Linux kernel -- under the GNU GPL, it means that regardless of the outcome of that process, no party will ever be able to ask for licensing fees." says Werner Koch, Head of Office of FSF Europe. "The whole issue has been very much overplayed and overrated by analysts who assumed that if there is smoke, there is fire. But in the modern business world, you will often discover nothing but a smoke machine," concludes Georg Greve, president of the FSF Europe. "In the end, this case is a typical example of a company trying to undo time and undoing itself in the process. Understanding, accepting and working with the freedoms of Free Software is becoming a key factor of success for modern companies in information technology." About the Free Software Foundation Europe The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) is a charitable non-governmental organization dedicated to all aspects of Free Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. Therefore the freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition - allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSF Europe, which was founded in 2001 as the European sister organization of the Free Software Foundation in the United States. http://fsfeurope.org Contact Europe: Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)fsfeurope.org> phone: +49-40-23809080 fax: +49-40-23809081 Italy: Stefano Maffulli <maffulli(a)fsfeurope.org> phone: +39-02-34537127 fax: +39-02-34531282 Germany: Werner Koch <koch(a)fsfeurope.org> phone: +49-2104-173855 Further contact information available at http://fsfeurope.org/contact/ _______________________________________________ Press-release mailing list Press-release(a)fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release

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Re: summer school
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

Could someone help Prof Gangavane? Prof, I wish the term used would be GNU/Linux (rather than just the kernel's lable of 'Linux', which lacks the strong emphasis on ethics and freedom. FN On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, vibhavari vasant pandit wrote: > To, Respected Sir/Madam Sub :- Demanding suggestion about summer school. We are going to conduct Summer School at panhale (Lanja) Ratnagiri. This summer School is held during the month of May. The Summer School will be a 1-Month condensed introduction of a Vocational Course that is meant to prepare the student to be a Productive Self Reliant Knowledgeable Computer Craftsman who has leaned the Art of Working with Free Software for Productive use in the Society, covering all important Areas of human life. These students would have tasted the Freedom and Honesty and Continuous Learning that is involved in working with Free software, and would have imbibed the work culture of independent and autonomous self-learning made possible by the free access to the wealth of software and documentation available on the internet. It also engenders in them the spirit of freely giving back to the society in kind. Syllabus of course is enclosed with this letter. Kindly send your suggestions on this id vgangavane(a)rediffmail.com or contacat on this telephone no.(02351) 230749 & (02351) 230824. One Month Course Contents 1. Computer Fundamentals - Computing with a Desktop PC 2. What is Free Software, Open Source , Linux ? 3. System features - Design and Philosophy of Linux. 4. Text processing and word processing. 5. Programming languages and utilities. 6. Graphical Desktop - X Window System. 7. Introduction to Networking and Communications. 8. World Wide Web. 9. Differences between Linux and other operating systems. 10. Hardware requirements. 11. Obtaining and Installing Linux 12. Generic installation - Partitioning. 13. Hardware Compatibility Issues 14. Features of Installed Linux System 15. Console commands, Indirection and Piping 16. Desktop Programs 17. Downloading, Copying and Installing Programs 18. Linux Distributions - Red Hat Linux. 19. The RPM package management system. 20. Problems with installation 21. Understanding Login accounts. 22. Shells and Executing programs. 23. Home directory and Working in Linux 24. The Linux File System 25. The root user and Permissions 26. Jobs and processes. 27. Background processes and Daemons. 28. Text documents Using the vi editor. 29. HTML documents with vi editor. 30. TeX dcuments with vi editor. 31. Shell environment and scripts. 32. Creating,Archiving and compressing files. 33. Upgrading and installing new software. 34. Application Binaries and System files. 35. Text processing using GUI Applications 36. Indian Language Fonts and Documents. 37. Images and Image Editing 38. Sound and Text to Speech 39. Linux Desktop Multimedia 40. Devices and Mounts in Linux 41. Serial, Parallel and USB devices 42. Printing, Scanning and Camera 43. Networking and Host names 44. Configuring TCP/IP on the system. 45. Dial-up Modems, PPP and Internet. 46. Linux Console and gui programs. 47. Tricks and Shortcuts. 48. The linux culture. Yours Faithfully Vasantrao Gangavane -- Frederick Noronha : http://fredericknoronha.blogware.com Freelance Journalist : Ph 0091.832.2409490 Cell 0 9822 122436

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Bangla LINUX in Compass 2004
by linux junkies 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

Yesterday was the last day of COMPASS 2004. After three disappointing days last two days has been encouraging to the Linux fanatics like me. ILUG-CAL presented linux to this COMPASS. I must appreciate Mr.Indranil Dasgupta and Mr Shankarshan Mukhopadhya, who answered the open house. Though participation was very disappointing. The range of question was very vivid. From one user asking the web address where he can download these free stuffs to the other user asking whether he can use his old ttf (true type font) Bengali fonts in this free OS platform. Most of the queries were whether users could run so-called popular proprietary s/w in GNU/LINUX. Both of them handled these queries efficiently. My heartiest thanks to them. Most interesting part was their presentation on Ankur Bangla Project. ( You can see details about it at www.bengalinux.org ). They presented Ankur Bangla Live CD 1.0. It is a fascinating idea to make a OS with Bangali messages. People will love to work with a s/w that they can instruct in his mother tongue (though it will still work in binary). The basic idea of popularizing GNU/Linux will get a booster dose, at least in Bengal through this project. L10n(localization) of the OS is very much needed to popularize Free s/w. Various bengali OTF(Open type Fonts) in UNICODE was also very much needed for easy portability. The editors are quite good. They have all powerful features that a modern text editor needs, even a interesting bengali dictionary to check spellings . Bangla Sahityer Sankalan (Collection of Bengali Literature) is also very unique. The Full Ankur Bangla Linux distribution is due in April 2004. They are also undertaking Oriya localization project. It is nice to hear that 15 community centers in USA is using this Live CD to train US born bengali children in their mother tongue. These children took birth in a country habituated with computer. So its a nice idea to teach them bengali through computers. This live CD might be first big step forward to popularize GNU/Linux in Bengal also. We can approach West Bengal Government to adapt this Bengali Linux instead of proprietary s/w in their basic computer education starting from school. May this live CD, not be a collectors item of proprietary s/w users. I expect this CD to pave a path of using free s/w and LINUX OS in West Bengal. One very good friend of mine made a good point here. We must make conscious effort to let people know that there exist a Free Live Bangla OS CD, otherwise there is no point in making such a good job. It will just be wasted. A grass root level workforce must be there to popularize GNU/Linux itself, otherwise all their valuable efforts will be in vain. I found a little boy in this COMPASS saying Their configuration lack enough memory to run P IV efficiently, after seeing a h/w vendors offer paper. This was fabulous. It shows how much we are coming of age. But this little boy must also be taught to use FREE GNU/Linux and s/w so that he will not use pirated proprietary s/w. He should be taught that here he can put his talent to modify the s/w itself according to his need. Most of the LUGs have been involved in projects that take the free s/w movement ahead. It is very much needed. But they lack the urge to popularize it in grass root level. But Believe me, this is important. There is no point in inventing space ships if common people are not made aware of their existence. Common people must be heard, they must be informed, due attention must be given to them to solve their basic problems in GNU/Linux. They must not thing Linux is very much geeks OS. They must feel easy while using LINUX daily in their PC. May the freedom, knowledge and the Ankur Bangla Live CD 1.0 be with you You can download this from http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bengalinux/ankurbangla-ld_1.0.… regards avijit patra linuxjunkies foundation www.linuxjunkies.org/forum Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more.

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Re: [Free-gis] Reinventing the wheel
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

----- Original Message ----- From: "V. Sasi Kumar" <vsasi(a)hotpop.com> > The Dept. of Science and Technology, Government of India, is planning to > invest in developing further their GIS called Gram that runs on Windows. > They are also planning to develop support for local level planning, > which included a decision support system. Much of what they are thinking > of is possibly available in the Free GIS GRASS. I think FSF should point > this out to the DST and garner support for further developing GRASS, if > required, for local level development purposes. An extract from DST's > report is given below: > This is perhaps the tragedy that has been afflicting the project(s) since inception. i feel that it'd be better if their particular needs are identified and then FSFI does provide a comprehensive case for GRASS. thanks for bringing this to the notice of the members. -sankarshan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.580 / Virus Database: 367 - Release Date: 02/06/2004

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GNU/Linux @ Compass 2004
by linux junkies 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

COMPASS 2004, organised by Computer Association of Eastern India is One of the biggest IT show in India (from 13 th Feb to 17 Feb in Kolkata). We, the members of LINUXjunkies.org have found some interesting facts on GNU/Linux in this IT show. 1. There are only two participants have GNU/Linux installed on their PC.Everybody else are using Windows XP mostly. Whether they are PC vendors, or dealing with Monitors or Music systems, everybody are using Windows XP or Windows 98. Only "aamar PC", the bengal's own branded pc has all of their pcs redhat 9 pre-installed. And another vendor, i just can't remember name, has a Debian preinstalled on it's HCL Beanstalk machine. 2. When we enquired about the GNU/Linux compatible Printers, we have none. All the vendors said that printers have nothing to do with OS. but when we insisted, they said that why we were bothering about OS. Some of them offered us Windows for Free if we get printers from them. 3. Some vendors are offering refurbished pcs, with the price tag of Rs. 5000 to 9000, with Windows 98/XP pre-installed. When we asked them about the GNU/Linux, they said that we don't need to use GNU/Linux as they are giving us Windows for Free ( Pre-installed ).i.e why you use GNU/Linux if you could get Windows for Free ! 4.Chabria Infotech, one of the biggest s/w vendors of Kolkata, has a display board at their stall. The board says " Linux available here" with the logo of all major linux distros. But when we enquired, we came to know that they donot have any of linux distros right there at their stall. We have to order and it will take at least 5 to 7 days to get the CDs. One interesting thing was, when we asked for the price,they said the OEM (!) version of all distro will cost Rs 500 and Original (!) Full pack will cost around Rs 3500. 5. When we asked for any games on GNU/Linux, the game vendors said that they don't have anything for GNU/Linux. Well, this the overall picture of GNU/Linux at Compass 2004. Any comments??? regards aloke majumder LINUXjunkies Foundation www.linuxjunkies.org/forum ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more. Go to: http://in.insurance.yahoo.com/licspecial/index.html

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Leapfrogging the divide
by Ramanraj K 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Today's ET has carried a report on the Akshaya computer literacy mission titled "Leapfrogging the divide" in the The Knowledge Society section. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/497224.cms But, the article did not mention about any use of free software in the project.

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Memorandum to CSIR
by Ramanraj K 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Last month, it was decided to draft a memorandum to request CSIR to use Free Software and philosophy. I have posted a memorandum to the fsf-discuss list, which includes ideas and suggestions from V. Sasi Kumar, Mahesh T. Pai, and other members of this list. Please join the thread at fsf-discuss and share your views.

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UGC
by Mahesh T. Pai 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Any body interested? http://www.ugc.ac.in/hisp.htm -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://paivakil.port5.com +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+

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