Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Asianet is inserting ads on paid connection

2012-05-30 Thread Jayson Joseph Chacko
This clearly is illegal. It is like someone tapping your phone call and then talking in your voice to the other end. Unfortunately we don't have a legal precedence. Someone should go to the court. On Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:45:17 UTC+5:30, Dipin Krishna wrote: > > I think asianet is doing this t

[ilug-tvm] Re: Comment on http://www.jayson.in/opinion/free-software-free-society-a-kerala-pers pective.html

2008-12-15 Thread Jayson Joseph Chacko
d be qualified enough. Visual similarity to Stallman shouldn't be one of them (Remember RMS has done a lot of contribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman) I demand you rename it to "Freedom Movement". On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:19 AM, V. Sasi Kumar wrote: > &g

[ilug-tvm] Re: Comment on http://www.jayson.in/opinion/free-software-free-society-a-kerala-pers pective.html

2008-12-15 Thread Jayson Joseph Chacko
>>There are many Free Software products done by the communitiies including the Debian GNU/Linux distribution considering communities around the world and also localised versions of GNU/Linux considering the local communities. Just one question, did you or any of the guys in Tvm lug made any contri

[ilug-tvm] A user perspective on free software/proprietary software debate

2008-12-15 Thread Jayson Joseph Chacko
I am reposting a comment by deep (since it is the same what I wanted to convey) - http://brainstorms.in/?p=240#comment-1595 I started using Free software right from the days it started being used and as early as one could afford to buy a SIVA PC ! That was in 1994!! Even today we dont have a prof

[ilug-tvm] Re: Comment on http://www.jayson.in/opinion/free-software-free-society-a-kerala-pers pective.html

2008-12-15 Thread Jayson Joseph Chacko
> I tried to post this comment several times, but all the time i do it, > it threw an error wp-spamfree. I guess a bug with the wp plugin, sorry about that. > As you say i may be the 'militant Free software activist' and i am > proud to be one. I can see that. It also appears to me that you guy

[ilug-tvm] Re: Academic Projects And PHP

2008-12-15 Thread Jayson Joseph Chacko
>> Arun, Cant we do this if we meet IT Mission people/ IT Secretary ? I like the way you took that decision in just 2 minutes. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, ashik salahudeen wrote: > > We could persuade the IT Mission to send a letter to the Department of > Technical Education and from there

[ilug-tvm] Re: Academic Projects And PHP

2008-12-15 Thread Jayson Joseph Chacko
>> There are a few colleges which dont allow students to use PHP I don't personally recommend PHP for *teaching* purpose. PHP is easy and powerful. But many including myself think it is not the best language to teach computer programming (since it is not the best language to teach programming fund

[ilug-tvm] Re: fsfs.in and windows

2008-12-14 Thread Jayson Joseph Chacko
wrote: > 2008/12/14 Jayson Joseph Chacko : > > > > JavaFX runtime is not free. Check out the revised Sun binary license, > > > > http://www.java.com/en/download/license.jsp > > > > It says, > > > > "Unless enforcement is prohibited by applicabl

[ilug-tvm] Re: fsfs.in and windows

2008-12-14 Thread Jayson Joseph Chacko
JavaFX runtime is not free. Check out the revised Sun binary license, http://www.java.com/en/download/license.jsp It says, "Unless enforcement is prohibited by applicable law, you may not modify, decompile, or reverse engineer Software" It goes on to exclude the JavaFX runtime specificiall

[ilug-tvm] Re: fsfs.in and windows

2008-12-13 Thread Jayson
> But all Free Software community > asks is not to mix us these and don't use pragmatic values to > represent Free Software. I agree. After all if you are a religious preacher, you cannot promote atheism in your sermons. Agreed. But don't condemn those who are atheists! (I am using an analogy her

[ilug-tvm] Re: fsfs.in and windows

2008-12-13 Thread Jayson
The core JavaFx runtime is closed source and would come under the proprietary software. Others such as the compiler is GPLv2. On Dec 13, 11:54 pm, "Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil" wrote: > Hi >       Also , there should be some peer review on selection of  topics for > conferences.  I cannot see any

[ilug-tvm] Re: fsfs.in and windows

2008-12-13 Thread Jayson
<< If I'm a contributor to free software, coming for the conference to present something, aren't I allowed to use software of my choice on my machines? This is the exact question I have. I believe open source and free software brings a lot of benefits to the table. I also think that we should fig

[ilug-tvm] Re: fsfs.in and windows

2008-12-13 Thread Jayson
> Windows. Sun's people came with Windows Laptop. Their bad. It was > their choice. They didn't force it on anyone else did they ? What is > wrong with Windows-themed UI if it makes someone's transition to GNU a > little bit easier ? What about this? http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/20