On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Eli Billauer wrote:
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:51:13 +0200
From: Eli Billauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Haifa Linux Club <haifux@haifux.org>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, boazg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
I don't quite see how a talk about a proprietary OS fits Haifux's
charter?
Lecture #79: Random numbers
Lecure #81: Multilingual typesetting
Lecture #95: Hebrew fonts
Lecture #114-SIL: Intro to Alice, Bob and Eve: a glimpse of
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Haifux' charter has always been that if there's an audience, there's a
lecture.
Eli
There is a difference between general computer science topics, such as
random numbers (btw, at the end of the lecture, /dev/random and
/dev/urandom were discussed) and proprietary software.
The Hebrew fonts were released under a free license, and are needed in
order to view MS documents on a Linux system. The typesetting lecture was
a broader topic of TeX, FOSS. We also hosted a lecture about CC.
As I see it, Haifux is not an "OS club". When the idea of having a lecture
about Windows drivers was brought up, I (and others) objected for the same
reason.
I think lecture 6 is the only totally proprietary lecture we had, and this
was indeed before my time.
Orna.
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