On 30-Jun-08, at 9:46 PM, Jasbir Khehra wrote:
> Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
>> only be shared.
>>
> Bought any books lately?
yes - bough
On 30-Jun-08, at 9:42 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
>>
>> software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
>> only be shared.
>>
>
> And you would gladly "share" for a neat sum of money?
>
> In the Gurukul system, knowledge was gladly shared for next to
> nothing.
If I have
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:41:22 +0530
Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
[snip]
>
> software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
> only be shared.
>
Bought any books lately?
_
+++ Kenneth Gonsalves [30/06/08 20:41 +0530]:
>
>software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
>only be shared.
>
And you would gladly "share" for a neat sum of money?
In the Gurukul system, knowledge was gladly shared for next to nothing.
- Sandip
--
Sandip Bhattacharya
On 30-Jun-08, at 6:10 PM, Anand Shankar wrote:
> I believe the two are FOSS. And as per the GoI contract document, it
> is VAT instead of Service Tax!! If you were to interpret
> more closely , it means most Government Departments are
> ending up buying FOSS, and that too as a Proprietary Softwa
On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
>>
>> I would tend to the opinion that sale of any software, let alone FOSS
>> is illegal, immoral and an act of cheating - the only point is, that
>> the courts have to recognise this.
>>
>
> According to all FOSS licences, the software itself
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> question is: when you 'sell' FOSS do you charge VAT or do you charge
> service tax. We recently 'bought' a FOSS package for 3 lakhs. We were
> charged service tax to the tune of 36,000. If we had 'bought' a
> proprieta
+++ Kenneth Gonsalves [30/06/08 14:11 +0530]:
>
>I would tend to the opinion that sale of any software, let alone FOSS
>is illegal, immoral and an act of cheating - the only point is, that
>the courts have to recognise this.
>
According to all FOSS licences, the software itself need not be
ava
On 30-Jun-08, at 3:39 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
> If someone wants to buy a FOSS package it is perfectly legal and, IMO,
> moral to sell it to her. After all, the package remains doesn't
> become
> proprietary by the mere fact of sale -- it remains FOSS.
question is: when you 'sell' FOSS do you c
On 30-Jun-08, at 3:49 PM, Dinesh Shah wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <> wrote:
>> ultimately law is made by the supreme court. There is no such thing
>> as 'settled law', laws are always subject to change - just needs a
>> larger bench of the supreme court to do so. A
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <> wrote:
> ultimately law is made by the supreme court. There is no such thing
> as 'settled law', laws are always subject to change - just needs a
> larger bench of the supreme court to do so. And when the court looks
> at any law, they look at t
On Monday 30 Jun 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On 29-Jun-08, at 7:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
> [snip]
> > Some licences like the GPL force you to provide source code for a
> > nominal fee along with binaries at the user's request;
>
> I thought all OSI licenses force you to do this
Once again, yo
On 29-Jun-08, at 7:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
>> and when you finally find a buyer for that bridge across the Yamuna
>> don't forget to add octroi and VAT
>
> If you don't believe me, I'd suggest you get some competent lawyer to
> read the various licences at opensource.org and explain to you how
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