Re: [ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Linux Lingam wrote: > for software has jumped out of tape-reels and floppies, away from cds > to more of downloads, and quite soon, > will rapidly move away from hard-disks, to the 'hosted computing > model' and its ilk. > > or, in brutally simplistic words, 'software inside a web-browser' > avai

Re: [ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
"Sudhanwa Jogalekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How GPL applies to any user data? And even if applicable, how it is > going to protect from the service provider? Did you mean "why should GPL apply to any user data?" If so, I would rephrase it in a still wider "why user should have full con

Re: [ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bleah, I say, and bleah again! I will bet anyone ten thousand > quatloos that online applications, let alone online operating > systems will never be the future of computing, the fond hopes of > Google, and Microsoft notwithstanding. If MSVista wa

Re: [ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
"Linux Lingam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > time to start a discussion on GPL v4, anyone? > or would the free-software community do it in hindsight? IIRC, the current version of the GPL does take into account the case of applications delivered through the browsers. To "propagate" a

Re: [ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-27 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] > > Bleah, I say, and bleah again! I will bet anyone ten thousand > quatloos that online applications, let alone online operating > systems will never be the future of computing, the fond hopes > of Google, and Microsoft notwithstanding. you use twiki for project and event management. other

Re: [ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:41:03 +0530 "Linux Lingam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's about time the free software foundation (fsf.org) as well as free > software supporters, advocates, and evangelists, > lifted their heads from the sandbox most of them have buried their heads into. > > for softwar

Re: [ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's about time the free software foundation (fsf.org) as well as free > software supporters, advocates, and evangelists, > lifted their heads from the sandbox most of them have buried their heads into. > > for software has

[ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-27 Thread Linux Lingam
it's about time the free software foundation (fsf.org) as well as free software supporters, advocates, and evangelists, lifted their heads from the sandbox most of them have buried their heads into. for software has jumped out of tape-reels and floppies, away from cds to more of downloads, and qui