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Message: 9 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:23:13 +0530 From: Suraj Kumar suraj@symonds.net To: ilugc ilugc@aero.iitm.ernet.in Subject: [Ilugc] Free Software speeches on CD

I had the opportunity to download all the speeches on 'free software' and 'software patents' from gnu.org. I have cut a CD out of it. Unfortunately this collection does not contain RMS's speech at Chennai (Madras Institute of Technology) made on March 13th, 2002. However its worth noting that most of the speeches carry the same message (the only differences being the humour that he adds to various speeches). Especially the ones titled 'Free Software Movement' have little or no differences. For more information on the list of speeches, please visit:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html

The CD also bundles two of GnuPress published books:

1. Free Software, Free Society - http://www.gnu.org/doc/book13.html 2. Free as in Freedom - http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/

Also included are the web pages from http://gnu.org/philosophy/ and http://gnu.org/licenses/

Interested people can borrow the CD, copy the OGGs onto your disk AND/OR make a CD out of it. All this upon the condition that my CD be returned in a day OR two. (ideally, borrow on a saturday and return on sunday).

glitches: I should have put the ogg vorbis decoder (vorbis-tools and ogg123), ogg vorbis plugin for xmms, too in the CD. Maybe someone can come up with an upgraded version of the same CD with windows interop in mind, that would be fantastic!

On another note, I have three empty CD-Rs. I would be very much helped if someone can make three gratis copies of the same for my own personal circulation.

-Suraj