Re: [ilugd] Ignoring moral differences b/w FSF and FLOSS can ruin our mission!!!!

2004-07-21 Thread Ankur Rohatgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/21/2004 12:39 PM, NISHANT BHARDWAJ wrote: | REQUEST !!! | Please do not call GNU/LINUX systems as linux!!! | Else we will drift away from our own goal!! Support | FSF not FLOSS if u talk about morals!!! | | Request to LFY -- Change urself to

Re: [ilugd] patents considered harmful

2004-07-21 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] Moreover, you cannot patent software. You can patent only ideas. wan't it the other way around? i agree about the dangers of patents. the most controversial application of patenting yet is in medicine and healthcare. while beyond the domain of us software people, the least those

[ilugd] Fwd: [Fsf-friends] NIC goes Open

2004-07-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
[If you look around the usual FSF dont-use-the-term-opensource PR, this article is an interesting read. - Sandip ] -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Fsf-friends] NIC goes Open Date: Wednesday 21 July 2004 5:14 pm From: Mahesh T. Pai To: Friends of the FSF of India The

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of ILUGD July 18, 2004 meeting

2004-07-21 Thread Raj Shekhar
The list of attendees Sudev Barar Swapan Deep Balwan S Yadav Tarun Dua Satyakam Goswami Priyank Jain Shejar Tikoo Mairu Gupta Raj mathur Rewati Raman Sandeep Ponshikar Amit Singh Ankur Rohatgi Edwin Anuj Rahul Rahul Chopra Kishore Bhargava Vaibhav Sharma Amita Bhargava Geeta Bhargava R.N. Bhargava