Re: [ilugd] OSDD Portal - request for comments from community

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
>>> Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/20/08 9:38 PM >>> >IMHO, my perceived biggest problem in organizations like CSIR is >vendor/platform lock-in which causes expensive sustainability issues >later. Having options which are nimble are as important as options which >are so called "enter

Re: [ilugd] OSDD Portal - request for comments from community

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/20/08 9:38 PM >>> >[LONG] Comments inline... >On Thursday 19 Jun 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: >> +++ Andrew Michael Lynn [19/06/08 14:26 +0530]: >> >Requirements: Collaboration, Content-management, an Open Lab >> > note-book, project management and workflo

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread sumit singh
FOSS is an inclusive term generally synonymous with both free software and open source software which describe similar development models, but with differing cultures and philosophies. 'Free software' focuses on the philosophical freedoms it gives to users and 'open source' focuses on the perce

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Angad Singh
I'm not going to re-iterate anything just clearly mentioned in the entire discussion. If you just want to stick to your own conclusion even after it being proved wrong in the thread, then the list can decide who misled who. I'm glad its all archived. FWIW, I repeat, OpenSolaris is open source, its

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Angad Singh [22/06/08 02:32 +0530]: >There's a difference between "open source" and "FOSS" as is evident >and has been talked about a lot in the above discussion. No. There is no confusion about this in the list. FOSS definition includes open source, and the whole discussion was whether Opens

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Raj Mathur
On Sunday 22 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: > > There's a difference between "open source" and "FOSS" as is evident > and has been talked about a lot in the above discussion. Yes there is, and OpenSolaris is neither Open Source nor FOSS nor Free Software as of today. Please stop misleading the li

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Angad Singh
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +++ Angad Singh [22/06/08 01:13 +0530]: >> >>I agree. OpenSolaris, though being open source, is not FOSS, my point >>is just that why shud it not be discussed on this list if other >>non-FOSS distro's or other non-FOS

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Angad Singh [22/06/08 01:13 +0530]: > >I agree. OpenSolaris, though being open source, is not FOSS, my point >is just that why shud it not be discussed on this list if other >non-FOSS distro's or other non-FOSS languages and much else is already >discussed. Uh oh. Careful about your terminolog

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Angad Singh
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +++ Sudhanwa Jogalekar [21/06/08 15:43 +0530]: >> >>Ubuntu also has some proprietory components but nobody says it is >>NON-FOSS and is promoted and accepted very well everywhere. > > Perhaps you did not completely u

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Angad Singh
Firstly, let me remind you that the original discussion was whether OpenSolaris is or not 'open source', since I had made that claim. I never said it was FOSS. And that you're saying it is not FOSS is a complete FUD tactic too. Secondly, the point remains that none of the considered FOSS distributi

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Sudhanwa Jogalekar [21/06/08 15:43 +0530]: > >Ubuntu also has some proprietory components but nobody says it is >NON-FOSS and is promoted and accepted very well everywhere. Perhaps you did not completely understand what Raj said in the previous mail - all the Linux distros mentioned (Ubuntu, F

[ilugd] Tutorial for Devanagari Documents in LyX (from FOSS-Nepal)

2008-06-21 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]
-- Forwarded message -- From: Prakash Manandhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/6/21 Subject: [FOSS-Nepal] Tutorial for Devanagari Documents in LyX To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Suraj Adhikari (GMail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I have written a tutorial for Devanagari Document creation in

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 21 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: > [snip] > You did not tell me your views on this post: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64465&tstart=0 > > Let me quote it here: "In my understanding the answer is no. Please > note that the Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, FreeBSD are not

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 21 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: >> Please follow up the discussion on the advocacy-cg to get a better >> answer (hope this is not against any rule): >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64464&tst

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Angad Singh
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 21 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: >> Please follow up the discussion on the advocacy-cg to get a better >> answer (hope this is not against any rule): >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64464&tst

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 21 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: > Please follow up the discussion on the advocacy-cg to get a better > answer (hope this is not against any rule): > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64464&tstart=0 > > Please take a note of this reply as well: > http://www.opensolaris

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Angad Singh
Please follow up the discussion on the advocacy-cg to get a better answer (hope this is not against any rule): http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64464&tstart=0 Please take a note of this reply as well: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64465&tstart=0