Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-30 Thread Sahil Dave
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:02 AM, ashish gupta wrote: > Hi all, > > I have install Ubuntu 10.10 new version .before couple of month .it was > working fine till now. but last night when i open my laptop Keyboard and > mouse is not working . when i used external mouse its worked .i faced this > prob

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-30 Thread Sagar Belure
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Gaurav Mishra wrote: > > Businesses don't buy softwares, they buy solutions. Which inevitably solve > there one or other problem. > If you are looking forward to ideate onto a product , get into product > development , create marketing/sales system , create a deliv

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-30 Thread kamakshaiah m
Dear friend, First we need to know what is this term Free means, for you know I Installed Linux, sorry GNU/Linux many times (of course not only on my computer but also on others), this idea of Freedom is not totally what it means... You know, think about time you spend upon getting

Re: [ilugd] Delhi/NCR FOSS Geek meetup - 16 Jan 2011

2010-12-30 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Pratul Kalia said on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 03:30:53PM +0530,: > > But using Windows for showing pdf presentation is not acceptable. > > What I suggest you to make a demo in video format which can be used in > > Linux... > > This is what I am against. Promoting one thing is different from usin

Re: [ilugd] FOSS event in upcoming College Fest of CSIJMI . ALGORHYTHM'11 in March

2010-12-30 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Sheel Sindhu Manohar wrote: > Hi , > > JMILUG  planning for this event in the upcoming fest of Computer Society Of > India , JMI Students Chapter . > * > * > *Linux Adda* ( Linux Stall ) : All the information regarding GNU/Linux , > Free Softwares , Non DRM product

[ilugd] FOSS event in upcoming College Fest of CSIJMI . ALGORHYTHM'11 in March

2010-12-30 Thread Sheel Sindhu Manohar
Hi , JMILUG planning for this event in the upcoming fest of Computer Society Of India , JMI Students Chapter . * * *Linux Adda* ( Linux Stall ) : All the information regarding GNU/Linux , Free Softwares , Non DRM products , Etc will be provided by the coordinators and the students . Also Live CDs

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-30 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Sagar Belure wrote: > Maybe I'm asking another noob question. > But, wanted to know, how the big companies gain profit who run Free > and Open Source project like Mozilla, Apache, etc. > Of course, even if you are working for Free and Open source projects, > the

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-30 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Sagar Belure said on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:58:06PM +0530,: > Of course, even if you are working for Free and Open source projects, > there has to be some income. It is "free as in freedom"; freedom comes at a price; there are people like Canonical, IBM, and individual users like me who are wi