Re: [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change

2013-05-01 Thread Supreet Sethi
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Anupam Jain wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Supreet Sethi wrote: > >> Bitcoin is evil. Comparison to FOSS movement is ill thought out. Although >> there is political channelling of thought which is common between the two, >> the actual implementation is b

Re: [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change

2013-05-01 Thread Tavish Naruka
Hi Replying now since the thread has been revived. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Supreet Sethi wrote: > Secondly: When bitcoin infrastructure was started Satoshi or some > (one/people) pretending to be Satoshi, he started mining coins himself. At > the time, the yield was much better than it

Re: [ilugd] Debian Wheezy coming on 05.05.2013

2013-05-01 Thread Vivek Puri
Can *buntu carry on if Canonical were to pull the plug and close shop today? possible but unlikely. Most probably people will switch to other distro like Mint. -- http://www.twitter.com/vivpuri | http://www.machint.com ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilug

Re: [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change

2013-05-01 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Supreet Sethi wrote: > Bitcoin is evil. Comparison to FOSS movement is ill thought out. Although > there is political channelling of thought which is common between the two, > the actual implementation is bitcoin is marred by several questions. > > To start with: W