Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-13 Thread A. Mani
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:59 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 05:17 +, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: >>  But fundamentally communism is about collective ownership and freeing >> resources  from private ownership, say, the idea that  all the Land >> should be owned by the state,

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-13 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: >> I did contact MP from Coimbatore Mr.P.R.Natarajan today.  He is busy >> till 19th due to local body elections. Asked me to meet him after the >> date. >> >> Hope we have some time to rally our forces by then. > > That really great. > > T

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-13 Thread Shrinivasan T
> I did contact MP from Coimbatore Mr.P.R.Natarajan today.  He is busy > till 19th due to local body elections. Asked me to meet him after the > date. > > Hope we have some time to rally our forces by then. That really great. Thanks for the initiative. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-13 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends. > > We do not need the suggestions on whom to contact, to whom to explain > this issue. > > You are always welcome to contact anyone and discuss with any 'ism' leaders. > > Discuss with them in person or in mail or phone. > > We

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-13 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. We do not need the suggestions on whom to contact, to whom to explain this issue. You are always welcome to contact anyone and discuss with any 'ism' leaders. Discuss with them in person or in mail or phone. We had enough discussions in the list. All these list discussions will go vein

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-13 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
> > BTW 'Freedom' is the *ONE* thing communism take away from you. Capitalism's > greatest gift is freedom! Looks so from a distance. Under US capitalism, socialism is for corporates where govt uses tax-payers money to help corporates. Capitalism's gift of freedom is a myth as it leads to monopo

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-13 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > But fundamentally communism is about collective ownership and freeing > resources from private ownership, say, the idea that all the Land > should be owned by the state, very much akin to what FOSS is doing in > technology. > > I beli

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 06:23 +, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > Hi Ken > > Nope, haven't read any of those. For now i am bit too busy. not funny - in future refrain from talking about things you know nothing about > Surely i > might have a look into those if at all i get a chance for a prolonged >

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Senthil Nathan
How good is BOSS Linux compared to Ubuntu as desktop OS. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Asokan Pichai
On 13 October 2011 11:53, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > Hi Ken > > Nope, haven't read any of those. For now i am bit too busy. Surely i > might have a look into those if at all i get a chance for a prolonged > retired life in Ooty like yours. ;-) > Oh boy!? > [Snipped] > > Surely we can't go a

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Guruprasad
Hi, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > Hi Ken > > Nope, haven't read any of those. For now i am bit too busy. Surely i > might have a look into those if at all i get a chance for a prolonged > retired life in Ooty like yours. ;-) Do not top post. Use interleaved, trimme

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi Ken Nope, haven't read any of those. For now i am bit too busy. Surely i might have a look into those if at all i get a chance for a prolonged retired life in Ooty like yours. ;-) Don't get me wrong. I don't subscribe for any of those 'isms' - capitalism or communism. In this particular conte

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 05:17 +, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > But fundamentally communism is about collective ownership and freeing > resources from private ownership, say, the idea that all the Land > should be owned by the state, very much akin to what FOSS is doing in > technology. please d

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 22:05 +0530, Senthil Nathan wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:09 +0530, Senthil Nathan wrote: > > > communist Party of India to lobby the TN government in this > > > regard. > > > > what do they know about this issue? > > -- > > Their policy is to oppose crony capitalism a

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Senthil Nathan You might be right about all the local or Indian, 'stains' of the communists. But fundamentally communism is about collective ownership and freeing resources from private ownership, say, the idea that all the Land should be owned by the state, very much akin to what FOSS is doi

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Manokaran K
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Senthil Nathan wrote: > Unless there is some political backing it is not possible to persuade TN > government to install Linux and include Wifi in free laptops. Among the > allies of ruling party, CPI is the most likely party to support us in our > fight against "w

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Senthil Nathan
On Oct 13, 2011 1:02 AM, "Arun Venkataswamy" wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Senthil Nathan wrote: > > > On Oct 12, 2011 5:33 PM, "kenneth gonsalves" > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:09 +0530, Senthil Nathan wrote: > > > > communist Party of India to lobby the TN gover

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Senthil Nathan wrote: > On Oct 12, 2011 5:33 PM, "kenneth gonsalves" > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:09 +0530, Senthil Nathan wrote: > > > communist Party of India to lobby the TN government in this > > > regard. > > > > what do they know about this is

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Senthil Nathan
On Oct 12, 2011 5:33 PM, "kenneth gonsalves" wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:09 +0530, Senthil Nathan wrote: > > communist Party of India to lobby the TN government in this > > regard. > > what do they know about this issue? > -- Their policy is to oppose crony capitalism and american capita

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
> It's already a done deal. They are preloading BOSS linux with Windows. > http://bosslinux.in/BOSS-In-TamilNadu You sure about that?? :) :) -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Kumara Guru
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Senthil Nathan wrote: > TN Government must try to install both windows and Linux so that students > can decide whichever best suites them. If there are budget constraints then > they must drop Windows in favor of Linux. It's already a done deal. They are preloadi

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:09 +0530, Senthil Nathan wrote: > communist Party of India to lobby the TN government in this > regard. what do they know about this issue? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman

Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Senthil Nathan
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Yogesh Girikumar wrote: > Hi, > > Found this interesting. Abstract: > > "The Tamil Nadu government is adding costly MS software to laptops > meant for poor students. It could cost Rs 10,200 Crore and hamper > student growth" > > http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.

[Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!

2011-10-12 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
Hi, Found this interesting. Abstract: "The Tamil Nadu government is adding costly MS software to laptops meant for poor students. It could cost Rs 10,200 Crore and hamper student growth" http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws101011MICROSOFT.asp -- Y