Apologies for not adhering to some of the mailing list rules. Just to clarify the current misunderstanding: Our patent is for the embedded hardware; our software is entirely Open Source. I guess I should have made that distinction more obvious.
Also, thanks for the feedback; will use [job] annotation next time. Have an awesome week everyone _________________________ Paul Schwarz * Co-Founder of En Route Media* *Find me on... *M: 09930304088 L: 022 40093016 TheIndianStartup <http://theindianstartup.com/members/philippano/> *...or directly at: 254, A-Z Industrial Estate G. K. Marg Lower Parel 400013 Mumbai * On 4 October 2010 11:33, Balachandran Sivakumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Kenneth, > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 10:09 +0530, Mitul Limbani wrote: > > > please make up your mind - are you talking about GNU/Linux or about > > Linux? I have never heard of 'GNU Linux'. > >> > > "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" > > This is how the list shows up(at least in Gmail). And if you > have never heard GNU Linux, its your problem. We are in a GLUG and > GNU/Linux is perfectly fine. Its because of the vision of RMS/FSF/GNU > we are talking about free software now. True that we have Apache, > Mozilla and a dozen other groups. But the initial initiative and push > was from GNU and they have huge contributions to their credit(GCC,GDB > etc.). And, Linux, to me and to quite a few others, means the kernel. > And the OS has been termed GNU/Linux by a lot of people. No one asks > you to call it GNU/Linux. But don't force your view on others by > asking others to call it Linux. > > > >> Lets not define new rules just based on personal preferences @ > >> Kenneth. > > > Software patents are really bad. The fundamental > philosophy of GNU is free software, with free as in free speech. > Software patents and proprietary software should never be encouraged. > Thanks > > > > -- > Thank you > Balachandran Sivakumar > > Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. > > Mail: [email protected] > Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
