[ilugd] news: microsoft 'cajoles' ngos to support 'oxml'. business standard

2008-03-06 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, happened to pick up th papers today. business standard. delhi edition. 7 march 2008. on the front page, a small para on the left-panel points to a story. an inside page has a large story with quotes from rajmathur, venkatesh hariharan, and some unnamed microsoft spokesman. interestingly,

[ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2008-03-06 Thread nkapoor
Fri 7-Mar-2008: ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New/recent events: 0 Total events: 71 = New Discussion forum postings: 0 Total postings: 977

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 07-Mar-08, at 1:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just that so far in india no one has bothered to exercise it. > Also you must ensure you do not install it, or in presence of > witnesses click on 'do not accept' or similar, for the end user > license agreement. I heard that for xp there is a

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 07-Mar-08, at 12:18 AM, Anupam Jain wrote: >> Huh. Bigots are people too, I guess ;-) > > No bigotry here.. It's a fact that Ubuntu has an amazing PR.. So good > infact that hard core windoze users don't flinch anymore when I use > the F-word (FOSS) in combination with it :) true - the other

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 06-Mar-08, at 8:40 AM, Vikas Rawal wrote: >> in the first place you should have returned the cd to dell and got a >> refund for the price you paid for vista. > > Has anyone on this list managed to get a refund from any of the major > laptop companies. They all package Windows OS with their > l

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread linuxlingam
A windows refund is possible, and your full legal right. Microsoft knows this and honours it. Just that so far in india no one has bothered to exercise it. Also you must ensure you do not install it, or in presence of witnesses click on 'do not accept' or similar, for the end user license agreement

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:12 PM, pj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anupam Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [about introducing friends to Free software] > > > > > The worry is more that a simple suggestion to use FOSS may prompt his > > friend to do nothing at all thus not be helped. > > Absolu

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Pratul Kalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone on this list managed to get a refund from any of the major > > laptop companies. They all package Windows OS with their > > laptops. Would be interested if anyone has managed to get a refund. > > That

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread Pratul Kalia
> Has anyone on this list managed to get a refund from any of the major > laptop companies. They all package Windows OS with their > laptops. Would be interested if anyone has managed to get a refund. That will be cool if any one has managed to do that. Kinda like the "Windoze Refund Day" as in

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread Puneet Lakhina
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Puneet Lakhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a dilemma that I am sure a lot of you have faced. I recently > bough a dell laptop which came with Windows Vista Home Premium. So I > obviously got the official windows vista cd. As a normal person i d

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread pj
Anupam Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [about introducing friends to Free software] > > The worry is more that a simple suggestion to use FOSS may prompt his > friend to do nothing at all thus not be helped. Absolutely. It's the way you deal with it that counts. > I usually let them use my Ubu