On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM, steve steve@lonetwin.net wrote:
Hi,
On 03/30/2010 11:02 PM, narendra sisodiya wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:20 PM, steve <steve@lonetwin.net
- *GNU/Linux : *You are allowed to carry Any Laptop with Any Operating System over it But you can only plug your laptop to projector if you have GNU/Linux OS over it. If you do not carry such laptop then you can ask organiser to arrange one for you.Again too restrictive. There are plenty of FOSS Operating Systems out there besides GNU/Linux.
Example ? we are basically want to deny for window and mac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems
of those, I believe there is a substantial presence of *BSD and Haiku users in India.
- *Free Lunch* : You must provide free lunch and evening snacks to all. - *No-Coke : *You must not use Cocacola during workshop.I think this is random. What have these things got to do with FOSS ?
basically coke has trade secret , that is why Open-Cola exist.
The presence of Open Cola aside, the fact of the matter is almost everything that we depend on these days has some level of protection of information.
I think applying FOSS principles to Cola is going too far. Anyone who does that is being a hypocrite unless they are also running systems that are not made from closed hardware (ie: various hardware vendor's ^trade secrets^) and are not using closed BIOSes to boot 'em up !!
The entire /reason/ for the FOSS movement is because the people who started it, believed that /software/ ie: the _source_ is something to be shared. If these people also say the same thing about colas, engine designs, business practices, drug research or any other sort of information, that is only incidental. Those additional beliefs should not just be blindly adopted nor be mandated in a ^Software^ Conference.
Thanks again for valuable inputs.