dear all, about two years ago, was having a discussion with raj about the fascinating account of how the tibetans in exile had recreated their culture and literature, which was completely demolished and obliterated by the chinese invasion, using principles from the GPL
though precious, sacred manuscripts were put to the flame, the tibetans recreated the texts and arts through their sheer memory. and this time, they published it on the internet digitally, and also released many of their fonts, wordprocessors and other tools, using the GPL (!) this story was covered by wired magazine almost a decade ago. i lost all the urls, and just a few minutes ago, rediscovered them. so am sharing it with all of you, as some of you may find this truly fascinating, and shows how Free and opensource can be used for digitally extending the life of cultures to the brink of extinction. just love the way they encoded their fonts, their language, digitized their books, and released them under copyleft licenses, http://www.nitartha.org/home.html [the home for digital tibetan] stuff on their software http://www.nitartha.org/software.html digital texts http://www.nitartha.org/text_list.html# ... and in case some of you wanna check out the http://www.tibet.dk/tcc/page1.htm tibetan computer company, check out their downloadable software am sure most of that stuff can run under gnulinux using wine. . . . buddhanet.net gives you free audio, free books, free software, even a flash animation comic of stories, and loads more, though most of their licenses are not strictly GPL, but have some degrees of freedom. http://www.buddhanet.net/ . . . :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
