Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-23 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:37:11 +0530 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I shared a perspective about my excitement at the opportunity and challenges--- for the good folks at Oracle in terms of business model and strategy... on acquisition of a product that was till now open source.

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-23 Thread Nalin Savara
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:37:11 +0530 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I shared a perspective about my excitement at the opportunity and challenges--- for the good folks at Oracle in terms of business model and

[ilugd] MS: A history of Anticompetitive behavior and consumer harm

2009-04-23 Thread tirveni yadav
Paper written by European Committee for Interoperable Systems: Microsoft: A history of Anticompetitive behavior and consumer harm http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf In brief: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009042327711 -- Regards, Tirveni Yadav

[ilugd] Help: Linux Mobile

2009-04-23 Thread sarath babu.mg
I want to know about linux mobiles to buy in recent future , in which have most user friendly functions. Regards Sarath ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Help: Linux Mobile

2009-04-23 Thread Kapsicum
Motorola A1600 only feature missing is Wifi On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:28 PM, sarath babu.mg sarathbabu...@gmail.comwrote: I want to know about linux mobiles to buy in recent future , in which have most user friendly functions. Regards Sarath ___

Re: [ilugd] Help: Linux Mobile

2009-04-23 Thread sarath babu.mg
Ok thanks for the kind replay Question: - Only Motorola Company is producing Linux Mobiles ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

[ilugd] Pirate Bay judge hilarity

2009-04-23 Thread Pawan
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/23/pirate_bay_judge_accused_of_bias/ For anyone following the case, it's gone way beyond farce. BTW, the Pirate Party is now the 4th biggest political party in Sweden. Oh, we live in interesting times alright! PJ

[ilugd] Ubuntu -9.04 Released

2009-04-23 Thread Mani A
See http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1209275cid=27687527 Best A.Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

[ilugd] request to remove my name from this mail chain

2009-04-23 Thread mayank shiromani
Please remove my name from this mail chain. My name is there in this list by mistake. I am no where related to linux. thank you. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Pirate Bay judge hilarity

2009-04-23 Thread gurteshwar singh
For anyone following the case, it's gone way beyond farce. It's the icing on the cake. BTW, the Pirate Party is now the 4th biggest political party in Sweden. Compared to the 2000 members they had 3 yrs back when they first got raided. Oh, we live in interesting times alright! Interesting

Re: [ilugd] [ilug-calinfo] Re: Ubuntu -9.04 Released

2009-04-23 Thread Mani A
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM, dan dantrev...@gmail.com wrote: Even better: http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent

[ilugd] some sony LCD tv screens use GPL and copyleft software

2009-04-23 Thread Linux Lingam
thought you'd find this interesting. stumbled across it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_bravia haven't found anyone hacking them. yet. so that means millions of people will experience the 'invisible' linux: my term for those who use linux without knowing they're using it. for example in

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-23 Thread Linux Lingam
meanwhile, i've been thinking of openofice, and the whole ODF and open-standards battle around it. gotta hand it to oracle. they *never* dreamt of making a foss suite like openoffice.org. sun did. now what will oracle do with it? am also thinking of javafx. not oracle's core domain expertise

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-23 Thread Raj Mathur
On Friday 24 Apr 2009, Linux Lingam wrote: meanwhile, i've been thinking of openofice, and the whole ODF and open-standards battle around it. gotta hand it to oracle. they *never* dreamt of making a foss suite like openoffice.org. sun did. now what will oracle do with it? Sun didn't create

Re: [ilugd] request to remove my name from this mail chain

2009-04-23 Thread Ajay Bramhe
Gora ji Good Morning This one also want's to go out of Penguin Empire... *सजा बताये इसके लिए* Penguin Lover AjayB On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:52 PM, mayank shiromani mayankshirom...@gmail.com wrote: Please remove my name from this mail chain. My name is there in this list by mistake. I

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-23 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: on the other hand, i hope oracle gets inspired by its collection of software to start considering converting its model away from software licenses to services, thereby making oracle software foss. You do realize that