Hi,
vikram vincent : session at amrita eng college - managed to be there for a short time
cool things ----------------
They have bunch of enthu students and a teacher who is excited about free software
-S
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some aspects of the session i remember -------------------------------------------------------------
started with video - Truth Happens
what motivates or inspires the free software community
Free software is about "the quality of sharing" - the quality very inate in us - appeal to that - how our mother told us its good to share food and choclates when we were young
sharing vs PIRATE
hacker vs cracker : who is a hacker - a cool - innovative guy - vs destructive guy
century of steel - century of information : the question of control : who controls - whose hands should the key be with in the information century - users - us or owners..
how much code we write we own - how much code we write for our country - how much we write in our languages - localisation
Open source vs free software
History of free software - with more clarity and emphasis : on freedom
right to copy - copy right - copy left : the gpl innovation
ended with distribution of a few posters..
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demo of cool free software is going on right now!!
Questions -------------- How secure is free software ? Why doesnt it give us a warranty What are the business models in free software ?
CONGRATS for arranging another awareness program and making many more aware of free softwares and the freedom that we all should have .
Questions
How secure is free software ?
my views on this is that free software is as much as you can make , because every one who uses have the freedom to report or make changes and if they are being responsible then they will either report or correct -- so as free software is as secure as we can imagine ...
fs is as secure as security can be. remaining secure is a perennial problem of nodes in a network what we need is a potentially good architecture, and support for security, and fs has this
Why doesnt it give us a warranty
it does not gives warranty because it is the the user who has to decide whether that particular software is safe or not
WARRANTY is not given even by paid softwares ------------ but warranty can be purchases from free software companies !!!
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What are the business models in free software ?
this one -- i think we have very flexible models --- no idea -- some one can add on this
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Thanks for the summary Senthil. The off-stage interaction was good too. We had a good crowd of around 80+ students. They will be having such sessions in the future as well.