Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

Hey, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time and again, there have been expressions on this list that management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind closed doors. Not true. Most of those assumptions might have been made by people who were not aware of how things happen at ILUG-d and the

[ilugd] Microsoft eyeing Yahoo: Reports

What are the implications of MS buying Yahoo- please do comment. Following reports are appearing: The New York Post reported early on Friday that Microsoft made an offer to buy Yahoo a few months ago, but Yahoo spurned the advances. The paper, putting a price tag of $50 billion on a Yahoo

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

Thanks for the responses all. Lots of threads, lots of people, I'm going to mix and match responses here. Mine begin inline, with a == PJ: .. I am unsure of your objection. Logically, being freed doesn't mean that you are forever free. You still run the risk of being enslaved again... == We

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

On 5/5/07, PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPL [...] has a restriction that is designed to prevent non-sharing of code. Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How? I am unsure if that was a rhetorical question. GPL has four freedoms: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html The

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GPL has redefined the word freedom. True freedom means that anyone can do whatever they want with code. Hence the BSD style licenses are truly free. GPL-like freedom, on the other hand is forced freedom. Forced freedom, IMHO, is as good as no

[ilugd] GPL/BSD (yet again) (was) Re: Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

While I respect the intention of GPL, I dislike BSD license being criticized unfairly. PJ wrote: The GPL compatible licences are designed to preserve freedom for the users. The BSD style licences have helped Microsoft take away freedom from the users. You are using two different kind of

[ilugd] subconferences at ilugd conference in sept (frred or freedel or something else ?)

Hi! all, I would have loved to mention the name of the event in the subject but teh confusion still holds. I am proposing holding subconferences withing the ilugd sept event. These subconferences will focus on one issue i.e will be like a conference by a SIG under teh banner of ilugd. There

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

Quoting PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would not agree that Freedel has been on a reasonable footing. Edition 2 was a bit of a flop. Why do you say that? i wasnt there, but was told that especially on the second day attendance was extremely thin. If I was misinformed, my apologies regards kg

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

Quoting Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, in software, there are several known examples where Microsoft has taken BSD code, altered it, and tried to lock users in to their way of doing things so that they can exploit them forever after. To an extent they have succeeded more than

Re: [ilugd] GPL/BSD (yet again) (was) Re: Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I respect the intention of GPL, I dislike BSD license being criticized unfairly. PJ wrote: The GPL compatible licences are designed to preserve freedom for the users. The BSD style licences have helped Microsoft take away freedom from