Re: [ilugd] how Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread shirish
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:27:54 + (UTC)
> From: PJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ilugd] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from
>trash-bin
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> shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>>  First of all sorry for cross-posting the same query on so many lists.
>
> So don't do that then. It irritates people and gets you bad karma.
>
>>  I read somewhere couple of days ago that Bill Gates actually got his
>> source-code from some trash-bin
>
> It's distorted in the telling.
>
>> I don't remember the website [snip excuses]
>
> I posted about it on this mailing list too a while ago, I think.
>
> "I'd skip out on athletics and go down to this computer center. We were moving
> ahead very rapidly: Basic, FORTRAN, LISP, PDP-10 machine language, digging out
> the operating system listings from the trash and studying those."
>
>  - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/06/29/bill_gates_roots/

I posted couple of more links after I got feedback. This was the
original post which I had read and then forgotten

http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2008/06/22/bill-gates-and-the-importance-of-source-code/

and another one which I got from here

http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html

I thank you for the additional link.
> PJ
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> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:16:52 +0530
> From:  ? Ashish Shukla  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ilugd] [OT] Difference between cross-post and multi-post
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> ,--[ On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:58:31AM +0530, shirish wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |  Another thing I know both the articles are written from usenet
> | perspectives. From what little I know usenet are the forefathers of
> | modern mailing lists, so the above should apply to mailing lists as
> | well I guess.
>
> Cross-posting and multi-posting make difference in newsgroup posting. I
> don't know how they're relevant in terms of mailing list.
>
> If you post a message to multiple newsgroups, by mentioning multiple 
> newsgroups
> separated by commas, in 'Newsgroups' header, this is cross-posting.
> There is a 'Followup-To' header, where you specify, on which newsgroup,
> you want follow-ups to the posting.
>
> If you post a single message to multiple newsgroups, by creating separate 
> postings,
> this is multi-posting.
>
> In case of cross-posting, only single message is submitted, which will
> show up in all posted newsgroups. If you've already read that message in one
> newsgroup, it'll be marked as _read_ for you by your NUA (news user agent),
> so if you came across that message in other newsgroups also, that message
> will already marked as _read_ .
>
> The cross-posting won't have desired effect (similar to newsgroups) in case of
> mailing lists, as these mailing lists operate in a different way from
> newsgroups. Although the only benefit with cross-posting in terms of mailing 
> lists is
> that you get messages from different lists with same 'Message-ID' header. It 
> depends
> on your MUA to figure out that whether these messages are cross-postings
> or not.
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> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:11:17 +0530
> From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got
>Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin
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> On 29-Jun-08, at 7:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
>
>>> and when you finally find a buyer for that bridge across the Yamuna
>>> don't forget to add octroi and VAT
>>
>> If you don't believe me, I'd suggest you get some competent lawyer to
>> read the various licences at opensource.org and explain to you how
>> none
>> of them prevents you from selling the software.
>
> if you are talking law, you would know that interpretation of
> statutes (and licenses, contracts etc) does not depend on the mere
> letter of the law. So by just examining the licenses, no lawyer,
> competent or not can give an opinion on this.
>
> there are two types of competent lawyers:
>
> 1. Those who look at the laws and court rulings and tell you what can
> be done within the confines of these laws
>
> 2. Those who look beyond what is written and work to create/develop
> the law on

Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves

On 30-Jun-08, at 9:46 PM, Jasbir Khehra wrote:

> Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
>> only be shared.
>>
> Bought any books lately?

yes - bought two, one on blender and one on django. Strangely enough,  
both books are available on the net for free download. Yet I forked  
out a total 49 euro for one and 39 usd for the other. The sharer of  
knowledge is entitled to be compensated for the cost of sharing. Note  
that if I had downloaded it, he would not have got that compensation.  
But since I prefer dead tree based material to digital stuff I gladly  
paid my contribution towards the work he did to document and  
communicate his knowledge and the money spent to inscribe this on  
dead trees.

I also bought several books of fiction which are another type of  
thing altogether.


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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves

On 30-Jun-08, at 9:42 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:

>>
>> software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
>> only be shared.
>>
>
> And you would gladly "share" for a neat sum of money?
>
> In the Gurukul system, knowledge was gladly shared for next to  
> nothing.


If I have an idli and I give the idli to you, you have an idli and I  
don't. So you compensate me with something worth an idli. If I have  
knowledge and I give the knowledge to you, we both have knowledge, so  
compensation is limited to the effort I spent in giving you the  
knowledge.


This is the best ever definition I have seen of FOSS.


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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Jasbir Khehra
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:41:22 +0530
Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
[snip]
> 
> software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can  
> only be shared.
> 
Bought any books lately?

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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Kenneth Gonsalves [30/06/08 20:41 +0530]:
>
>software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can  
>only be shared.
>

And you would gladly "share" for a neat sum of money?

In the Gurukul system, knowledge was gladly shared for next to nothing.

- Sandip

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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves

On 30-Jun-08, at 6:10 PM, Anand Shankar wrote:

> I believe the two are FOSS. And as per the GoI contract document, it
> is VAT instead of Service Tax!! If you were to  interpret
> more closely , it means most Government Departments are
> ending up buying FOSS, and that too as a Proprietary Software!!! In
> fact, it seems it is easier for the seller to propose them as
> Proprietary Software, and buyer to ask the seller saying that it is a
> Proprietary Software, to facilitate easy purchase within his
> organisation. All for the Government records!!! Moreover I am not sure
> how many purchase officers can tell the difference between the two and
> how.

I have just mailed the people who are charging service tax -  
interesting to see what their response is. After all if foss is a  
product that can be bought and sold, why should they charge extra?  
Interestingly enough, I am unable to find in the lists of FOSS  
business models any mention of a business model of selling FOSS as a  
product. But I suppose in view of the results of this debate, this  
will change.


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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves

On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:

>>
>> I would tend to the opinion that sale of any software, let alone FOSS
>> is illegal, immoral and an act of cheating - the only point is, that
>> the courts have to recognise this.
>>
>
> According to all FOSS licences, the software itself need not be
> available to be downloadable to public - only to the customer (You  
> can't restrain your
> customers from distributing it though) But the essence being that all
> the rights the licences talk about, are that of the paying customer.
>
> If that is the case, why cannot one sell software with source along
> with all the other freedoms given by the licence? What is immoral  
> about
> it? When you are using the term 'immoral', you mean it is the  
> violation
> of certain principles/intent of the licence. What violation do you see
> here?

software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can  
only be shared.


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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Anand Shankar
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> question is: when you 'sell' FOSS do you charge VAT or do you charge
> service tax. We recently 'bought' a FOSS package for 3 lakhs. We were
> charged service tax to the tune of 36,000. If we had 'bought' a
> proprietary package we would have paid sales tax at 4% or 12,000. (at
> that time there was no VAT in tamilnadu).
>
>
> --
> regards
>
> Kenneth Gonsalves


DGS&D (Directorate General of Supplies and Disposal, Government of
India) has a rate contract for Redhat Enterprise Linux and Suse
Enterprise Linux.

If the above two are considered FOSS, as per the terms and conditions,
the prices mentioned are inclusive of CST / 4% VAT.

I believe the two are FOSS. And as per the GoI contract document, it
is VAT instead of Service Tax!! If you were to  interpret
more closely , it means most Government Departments are
ending up buying FOSS, and that too as a Proprietary Software!!! In
fact, it seems it is easier for the seller to propose them as
Proprietary Software, and buyer to ask the seller saying that it is a
Proprietary Software, to facilitate easy purchase within his
organisation. All for the Government records!!! Moreover I am not sure
how many purchase officers can tell the difference between the two and
how.



anand

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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Kenneth Gonsalves [30/06/08 14:11 +0530]:
>
>I would tend to the opinion that sale of any software, let alone FOSS  
>is illegal, immoral and an act of cheating - the only point is, that  
>the courts have to recognise this.
>

According to all FOSS licences, the software itself need not be
available to be downloadable to public - only to the customer (You can't 
restrain your
customers from distributing it though) But the essence being that all
the rights the licences talk about, are that of the paying customer.

If that is the case, why cannot one sell software with source along
with all the other freedoms given by the licence? What is immoral about
it? When you are using the term 'immoral', you mean it is the violation
of certain principles/intent of the licence. What violation do you see
here?

- Sandip

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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves

On 30-Jun-08, at 3:39 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:

> If someone wants to buy a FOSS package it is perfectly legal and, IMO,
> moral to sell it to her.  After all, the package remains doesn't  
> become
> proprietary by the mere fact of sale -- it remains FOSS.

question is: when you 'sell' FOSS do you charge VAT or do you charge  
service tax. We recently 'bought' a FOSS package for 3 lakhs. We were  
charged service tax to the tune of 36,000. If we had 'bought' a  
proprietary package we would have paid sales tax at 4% or 12,000. (at  
that time there was no VAT in tamilnadu).


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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves

On 30-Jun-08, at 3:49 PM, Dinesh Shah wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <> wrote:
>> ultimately law is made by the supreme court. There is no such thing
>> as 'settled law', laws are always subject to change - just needs a
>> larger bench of the supreme court to do so. And when the court looks
>> at any law, they look at the written law as well as such things as
>> natural justice, equity, interests of the state, interests of the
>> public in general and then they pronounce on the law.
>
> err... When have our honorable courts have become law makers? Any and
> all courts only help the interpretation of law laid down by our
> (dis?)honorable law makers namely - parliament and legislative
> counciles of states.

law comes from:
1. tradition or custom (common law)
2. Parliament and legislative assemblies
3. Ordinances from the executive branch
4. Judgements of the high courts and supreme court

but ultimately the final arbiter and hence lawmaker is the supreme  
court (note the word ultimately in the quote).


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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Dinesh Shah
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <> wrote:
> ultimately law is made by the supreme court. There is no such thing
> as 'settled law', laws are always subject to change - just needs a
> larger bench of the supreme court to do so. And when the court looks
> at any law, they look at the written law as well as such things as
> natural justice, equity, interests of the state, interests of the
> public in general and then they pronounce on the law.

err... When have our honorable courts have become law makers? Any and
all courts only help the interpretation of law laid down by our
(dis?)honorable law makers namely - parliament and legislative
counciles of states.

> --
> regards
>
> Kenneth Gonsalves
> Associate, NRC-FOSS
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Raj Mathur
On Monday 30 Jun 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On 29-Jun-08, at 7:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
> [snip]
> > Some licences like the GPL force you to provide source code for a
> > nominal fee along with binaries at the user's request;
>
> I thought all OSI licenses force you to do this

Once again, you need a competent lawyer to show you how various FOSS 
licences differ from each other.  Some, like the GPL, force 
distribution of source when you distribute binaries.  Others like BSD 
permit you to give and/or sell binaries made from FOSS source without 
any obligation to provide the source.

> > however, that
> > nominal fee applies to the source code, not to the binaries --
> > there is
> > no limit on how much you can charge for the binaries.
> >
> > In short, not being able to sell FOSS is a limitation of the market
> > (no
> > one wants to buy it), rather than some intrinsic limitation in FOSS
> > itself.
>
> I would tend to the opinion that sale of any software, let alone FOSS
> is illegal, immoral and an act of cheating - the only point is, that
> the courts have to recognise this.

So are you OK with giving proprietary software away for free?  Should we 
be commending MS for making IE available for download for free?

If someone wants to buy a FOSS package it is perfectly legal and, IMO, 
moral to sell it to her.  After all, the package remains doesn't become 
proprietary by the mere fact of sale -- it remains FOSS.

I believe that proprietary (close source) software it unethical and 
immoral.  Not being a communist, I don't believe that just selling 
software is immoral or unethical.  As long as the software remains open 
you are welcome to make money from in in any way you desire short of 
making it proprietary.  You can give away free copies of proprietary 
software

As for legality, I would only like to quote some statements from the GNU 
General Public Licence v2.0:


When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.



...if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a 
fee...



You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and 
you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.


If RMS and all of FSF is satisfied with expressly permitting charging 
money to distribute FOSS, I'm satisfied that it's legal and ethical.

In short: Proprietary software is not the same as commercial software.

Regards,

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Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves

On 29-Jun-08, at 7:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:

>> and when you finally find a buyer for that bridge across the Yamuna
>> don't forget to add octroi and VAT
>
> If you don't believe me, I'd suggest you get some competent lawyer to
> read the various licences at opensource.org and explain to you how  
> none
> of them prevents you from selling the software.

if you are talking law, you would know that interpretation of  
statutes (and licenses, contracts etc) does not depend on the mere  
letter of the law. So by just examining the licenses, no lawyer,  
competent or not can give an opinion on this.

there are two types of competent lawyers:

1. Those who look at the laws and court rulings and tell you what can  
be done within the confines of these laws

2. Those who look beyond what is written and work to create/develop  
the law on the relevant subject

ultimately law is made by the supreme court. There is no such thing  
as 'settled law', laws are always subject to change - just needs a  
larger bench of the supreme court to do so. And when the court looks  
at any law, they look at the written law as well as such things as  
natural justice, equity, interests of the state, interests of the  
public in general and then they pronounce on the law.

In the case of software in general and FOSS in particular, there is a  
school of thought that software is knowledge which belongs to mankind  
and can neither be bought nor sold. I happen to subscribe to that  
school of thought. And I know competent lawyers who also belong to  
that school of thought, who are working to get rulings from courts in  
these areas. So the question is: which type of competent lawyer  
should I approach?

Further, there are two more problems here:

1. No two lawyers agree on anything. So how many opinions do I get?

2. A legal opinion is only worth anything if a fee is paid and the  
opinion is given on the firm letterhead and signed on every page. For  
an opinion on a matter so fraught with controversy and with huge  
financial implications, the fee would run to several lakhs - I cannot  
afford that.

Anyway, the practical problem before us is that purveyors of FOSS  
have to charge service tax as they have been advised that FOSS  
software is not a commodity that can be bought or sold. Proprietary  
software vendors get away with VAT - as the rate of ST is 12% and VAT  
much lower, this puts FOSS vendors at a disadvantage. If we can get a  
strong enough legal opinion on this subject, then we too could charge  
VAT and become more competitive.

Maybe we could get an opinion from Eben Moglen (only lawyer that I  
know of who is competent in this field).

>
> Some licences like the GPL force you to provide source code for a
> nominal fee along with binaries at the user's request;

I thought all OSI licenses force you to do this

> however, that
> nominal fee applies to the source code, not to the binaries --  
> there is
> no limit on how much you can charge for the binaries.
>
> In short, not being able to sell FOSS is a limitation of the market  
> (no
> one wants to buy it), rather than some intrinsic limitation in FOSS
> itself.

I would tend to the opinion that sale of any software, let alone FOSS  
is illegal, immoral and an act of cheating - the only point is, that  
the courts have to recognise this.


-- 
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Kenneth Gonsalves
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Re: [ilugd] [OT] Difference between cross-post and multi-post

2008-06-30 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
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,--[ On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:58:31AM +0530, shirish wrote:
| Hi all,
|  Another thing I know both the articles are written from usenet
| perspectives. From what little I know usenet are the forefathers of
| modern mailing lists, so the above should apply to mailing lists as
| well I guess.

Cross-posting and multi-posting make difference in newsgroup posting. I
don't know how they're relevant in terms of mailing list.

If you post a message to multiple newsgroups, by mentioning multiple newsgroups
separated by commas, in 'Newsgroups' header, this is cross-posting.
There is a 'Followup-To' header, where you specify, on which newsgroup,
you want follow-ups to the posting.

If you post a single message to multiple newsgroups, by creating separate 
postings,
this is multi-posting.

In case of cross-posting, only single message is submitted, which will
show up in all posted newsgroups. If you've already read that message in one 
newsgroup, it'll be marked as _read_ for you by your NUA (news user agent),
so if you came across that message in other newsgroups also, that message
will already marked as _read_ .

The cross-posting won't have desired effect (similar to newsgroups) in case of
mailing lists, as these mailing lists operate in a different way from
newsgroups. Although the only benefit with cross-posting in terms of mailing 
lists is
that you get messages from different lists with same 'Message-ID' header. It 
depends
on your MUA to figure out that whether these messages are cross-postings
or not.

HTH
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