Re: [fosscomm] Freesoftware meet at Kerala Literature Fest Venue on 11th January kozhikode

If possible, try and provide live participation using publicly available tools for those who cannot be present. Much appreciated On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 10:42, Kannan V M wrote: > Since Richard Mathew Stallman is giving speeches on 11th and 12th at > KLF19, many free software enthusiasts are

Re: [fosscomm] [Fsmk-discuss] [X-post] "Dangerous Ramifications" of Facebook lobbying

On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 7:45 am Anivar Aravind wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Pirate Praveen > wrote: > >> And clearly the question that linked Facebook’s lobbying efforts in India >> to “dangerous ramifications for policy-making in

Re: [fosscomm] [Fsmk-discuss] [X-post] “Dangerous Ramifications” of Facebook lobbying

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Akshay S Dinesh wrote: > > No, facebook is not just a technical thing, it is a social fact, a social > > structure. And a big one at that. And so the advantage is > > social-structural, and subject to legal/regulatory examination and >

Re: [fosscomm] [Fsmk-discuss] [X-post] “Dangerous Ramifications” of Facebook lobbying

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:57 PM, parminder wrote: > Akshay > > I agree when you say > " For example, TRAI can issue a list of expectations like "political > neutrality, no censorship", etc for the category "social network"" > > That was the kind of thing I was driving

Re: [fosscomm] [Fsmk-discuss] [X-post] “Dangerous Ramifications” of Facebook lobbying

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Akshay S Dinesh > wrote: > >> >> I have the following beliefs: >> 1) Internet organizations are no different from offline organizations. >> 2) Organizations are no

Re: [fosscomm] [Fsmk-discuss] [X-post] “Dangerous Ramifications” of Facebook lobbying

On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 8:37 am Akshay S Dinesh wrote: > >> So, it became a platform abuse only when Facebook did what is okay > >> (showing notifications, sending emails on behalf of others) to do > >> something that is not okay (not informing people of what the > >>

Re: [fosscomm] Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’

r the furthering of human freedom, should be published in HBR. > > On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 02:59 +, Vickram Crishna wrote: > > > > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 7:58 am Arun M <a...@gnu.org.in> wrote: > > > > > http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pirate-bay-founder-pe

Re: [fosscomm] Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’

On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 7:58 am Arun M wrote: http:// motherboard.vice.com /read/

Re: [fosscomm] [X post] One more step close to complete freedom, removed google apps from my phone

On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:21 am Pirate Praveen wrote: I have moved away from google and I strongly recommend all of you to do the same. It is mostly a psychological barrier. The features we miss can be added to Free Software collectively, but loss of privacy can never be

Re: [fosscomm] [X-post] Internet.org goes beyond being that else let

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:02 pm Pirate Praveen wrote: It is time to boycott facebook completely as the issue has grown from personal data privacy. It is about our soverignity and democracy. While one may call for boycott quite easily, it is better to make people aware

Re: [fosscomm] IBUS Hindi

On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 2:12 pm Guru g...@itforchange.net wrote: Dear friends ITfC has been working with Government High School teachers in Karnataka over last five years on ICT integration into education for their professional development, through the 'subject teacher forum' program. The program

Re: [fosscomm] [x-post] Time to switch to Kontalk

On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 11:44 pm Pirate Praveen prav...@onenetbeyond.org wrote: Hi folks, Finally we have a drop in replacement for WhatsApp that we can recommend to anyone (Telegram server was never Free Software, though I heard they are going to release it soon), its Kontalk. See kontalk.org There

Re: [fosscomm] what is the status of this mailing list

On 2 May 2015 03:05, Sudev Barar sba...@gmail.com wrote: Agree with Andrew. There is opportunity for entrepreneurs to do implementation services. The fact remains that typical CIO still looks for more than hand holding despite FOSS licensing and robust availability. Maybe people like Venky

Re: [fosscomm] what is the status of this mailing list

On 2 May 2015 10:40, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote: I am useful as a space for meeting and at best organising thought - unfortunately both also redundant in the age of the internet. Translation requires more professional commitment and capability and would require others to step

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: nettime Hackers can't solve Surveillance

With respect, I have some other ideas. On Jan 3, 2015 8:28 AM, Pirate Praveen prav...@onenetbeyond.org wrote: Original message Subject: nettime Hackers can't solve Surveillance Date: Sat Jan 03 2015 07:57:03 GMT+0530 (IST) From: Dmytri Kleiner d...@telekommunisten.net

Re: [fosscomm] [smc-discuss] crowd funding diaspora packaging

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-fall-of-facebook/382247/ The continuing presence of social networking alternatives to behemoth Facebook is examined. Among other things, smartphones and their 'service channel' apps like Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram etc are seen to occupy

Re: [fosscomm] A victory for free software over the Microsoft tax

That is one way of looking at the situation. However, to my mind, and according to the law, both vendors and customers each have a right of refusal. You would not demand food in some glitzy place without the fancy serving etc provided they charged you no more than the dhaba outside, but

Re: [fosscomm] Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption

On Nov 19, 2014 1:49 PM, Pirate Praveen prav...@onenetbeyond.org wrote: Today we’re excited to publicly announce a partnership with WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app in the world, to incorporate the TextSecure protocol into their clients and provide end-to-end encryption for their

Re: [fosscomm] SchNews

On Thursday, November 6, 2014, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: \quote SchNEWS was one of many significant projects which arose in the nineties (in Britain), coming out of the then-strong direct action movements, which sought to put in place 'infrastructure' which was by us for us - and

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: India May be Taking Bill Gates to Court for Misusing His So-called ‘Charity’ to Conduct Clinical Trials Without Consent on Behalf of Companies He Invests in

On Oct 31, 2014 7:23 AM, Sanjeev Gupta gha...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Yogesh योगि yog...@karnatakaeducation.org.in wrote: India May be Taking Bill Gates to Court for Misusing His So-called ‘Charity’ to Conduct Clinical Trials Without Consent on Behalf of Companies

Re: [fosscomm] are we going to think of privacy only when it hits us personally?

Regardless of whether men are boorishly ignorant of a potential feminist angle to nude photography, this particular case seems to be clearly of personal photographs being privately shared. It seems to me that if damages and compensation are a fallout, the sites (Instagram was mentioned, I think)

Re: [fosscomm] Indian govt issued tendor for cpp compiler

The tender document costs Rs 500! Just to find out what sort of scam these guys are running? It is simply not possible that nobody responsible at IMD is aware of this. On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: May somebody send a copy of gcc

Re: [fosscomm] Indian govt issued tendor for cpp compiler

Actually, there is no link to the tender documents at imd.gov.in either. There is an instruction to pay 500 chips, but that is physically, and separately, there is some mention of getting a physical copy from some physical address. As I said, scam. On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Indranil Das

[fosscomm] [OT] Amazon patents the white background

...and Stephen Colbert retaliates. http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/4a4ahs/amazon-s-audacious-photography-patent -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com *He's still watching me watching you watching the trains go by. And the way he stares --- feel like locking my

[fosscomm] Tails we win

Although purists may argue that there are ideological fine differences between software freedom and other freedoms, it is undeniable that the first is the most effective bulwark against threats to the latter in the digital world. Discussions on this toolset and other approaches could be helpful to

[fosscomm] Is it a bug? Is it a player? No - it's...Super!

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/band-releases-album-linux-kernel-module There is a tendency, understandably, among people who look to IT as a means of earning money, of thinking that computers are meant to compute, compute, and only compute. Some of these earnest people may not have

Re: [fosscomm] SciDataCon 2014 - First Call for Papers and Sessions (Deadline: 25 May 2014)

I am surprised that the SciDataCon, which I presume is an abbreviated portmanteau word encompassing science, data and conference, should find it necessary to mandate the use of proprietary technologies in order to participate. Slowly but surely, the mandated use of such technologies is being

Re: [fosscomm] BJP Manifesto Say - BJP will support Free and Open Source Software

I don't see the word 'free' anywhere. I cannot believe that the party, which is being described in the media as tech-savvy, especially with regard to its election campaign, does not know the difference, or that the development and acceptability of open standards in India has been deeply

Re: [fosscomm] NPTEL certification in programming

On Mar 4, 2014 7:11 PM, Guru गुरु g...@itforchange.net wrote: On 03/03/2014 05:16 PM, varadarajan narayanan wrote: Hi ! Before you make an issue of this , please check if they have the platform for SSO like OpenID and anyone can join with an e-mail ID which is SSO compliant . From the

Re: [fosscomm] Windows XP virus vulnerability

Yes, well Microsoft would indeed want to encourage users (especially captive markets like banks, whose front end devices tend to be principally Windows, and not only because of the numerous applets that package the data coming off the core banking system) to switch to a newer system, wouldn't

Re: [fosscomm] [OT] Repeal the exemption given to IT industry from IE (Standing Orders) Act

On 25 Oct 2013 11:49, Venkat Mangudi venkatmang...@gmail.com wrote: It has nothing to do with FOSS. I think this is totally off topic. Unionization has nothing to do with FOSS. In partial support of the person posting the news item, I disagree that this has nothing to do with FOSS. Partial

Re: [fosscomm] CMS to beat NSA

Apparently the 'authority' to surveil will be vested in the top bureaucrat of the concerned ministry, whichever one needs the information. I think the 'retirement' jobs of top bureaucrats is going to take a sharp tick upwards. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill communicall.wordpress.com He's still

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: [Gnu-linux-discussion] GNU/LSX

I get a 404 error on that link. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill communicall.wordpress.com He's still watching me watching you watching ... And the way he stares - feel like locking my door and pulling my phone from the wall. His eyes, like lights from a laser, burn making my hair stand - making the

Re: [fosscomm] Adobe Gives the Little Guys the Finger

Very thought-provoking. Arguably, there may be a case for cloud-driven application services that do not impinge upon user freedoms, in particular the kind of freedoms that seem impossible to guarantee unless a local (national) or regional (international) legal framework is in place. It points

Re: [fosscomm] Legal consequences of mapping in India

Until fairly recently, yes, the legal situation prohibited any kind of effective private mapping. That changed, continuing legal protection to designated security installations. The change is imho not well understood, just as it is not for photographs of monuments. Despite the fact that a

Re: [fosscomm] India drafts agenda to spread IT literacy

I'm a little curious. Since the agenda has been determined, does that include the goal?– because the goal of literacy is defined as the ability to read and write one's own name. Given the understanding of 'learning computers' encountered in almost every school and institution I encounter, this

Re: [fosscomm] India drafts agenda to spread IT literacy

Tull: A Passion Play (1973) On Jan 23, 2013 6:11 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a little curious. Since the agenda has been determined, does that include the goal?– because the goal of literacy is defined as the ability to read and write one's own name. Given

Re: [fosscomm] [fossyatra]Microsoft 's business strategy SC-ST train in india

I wonder what exactly is meant by 'developing the overall personality of students, improving written and spoken English and providing the basic computer knowledge', and which part of this is worth nearly 10k per head (unless the residential cost is included, in which case the poor kids are bound

Re: [fosscomm] Coverage of the school ipad2 giveaway in media

On Jan 2, 2013 9:02 AM, Sreekandh B gnuy...@gmail.com wrote: Am assuming you are talking about this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045896/What-financial-crisis-Essex-secondary-school-gives-1-200-pupils-free-iPad-2s.html ? Any other recent reference article you have ? While,

Re: [fosscomm] AICTE is forcing Microsoft Cloud Adoption Project to Higher Education

Not *the authorities*, but AICTE. As we have seen in the case of Kerala, individual bodies dealing with education need to be engaged as an ongoing activity. While policies may be announced from time to time, there is much in education that is necessarily discretionary, and things that ought to be

Re: [fosscomm] Unity Dash Mess

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:26 PM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu Unity Dash (or to be more precise unity-lens-shopping ) does not care for your privacy ... their implementation of 'auto-magical search' suggests precisely that.

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: Setting up FOSS HelpDesk for India

Inline: -- Vickram Fool On The Hill The cameras were all around. We've got you taped; you're in the play. Here's your I.D. (Ideal for identifying one and all.) Invest your life in the memory bank; ours the interest and we thank you. Jethro Tull: A Passion Play (1973) On Nov 14, 2012 5:06 PM,

Re: [fosscomm] Tally Wrapper

I On Sep 9, 2012 12:25 PM, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Venkat Mangudi venkatmang...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've started an open source project called Tally Wrapper at https://github.com/venkatmangudi/tally-wrapper The project is to create a

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: Technology Evangelists and Religious Evangelists — A Talk by Katherine Sydenham

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Sunil Abraham su...@cis-india.org wrote: Dear Friends, I wonder if some of our Bangalore FOSS advocates are interested in learning from the practices of religious evangelists :-) I was under the impression that most FOSSers are already quite fervent and

Re: [fosscomm] Extent of Surveillance

Firstly, perhaps this isn't the forum. On Jul 18, 2012 10:00 PM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=31899 We should have suitable standards in place for combating this. There are a few alternative technologies available, but what can we

Re: [fosscomm] Hacking and Activism

On Jul 15, 2012 3:37 PM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 10:15 +0530, Vickram Crishna wrote: On Jul 15, 2012 8:50 AM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote: But the FSMK people have decided to use the term ethical hacking for hacking

Re: [fosscomm] Android, Google, Oracle Case

On Jun 1, 2012 6:40 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: The judgement goes like: The overall name tree, of course, has creative elements but it is also a precise command structure — a utilitarian and functional set of symbols, each to carry out a pre-assigned function.

Re: [fosscomm] [ot]Parliament debate on Internet Censorship

On May 18, 2012 10:42 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Friday 18 May 2012, Senthil S wrote: [snip] My assurance to this House is that I will request distinguished hon. Members to write letters to me objecting to any specific words. I will then call a meeting of

Re: [fosscomm] Why global governance of the Internet must be democratised

(long post) Guru, Parminder's article provides food for thought, but I fear fails to capture the entire picture. It is true that ICANN is not exactly neutral, or at least has taken decisions in the past that appear partisan, but that is in itself a historical 'development' (the sort of

Re: [fosscomm] Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger

2012/3/29 Guru गुरु g...@itforchange.net ** Private company as censor... privatised governance and seems clearly illegal Reprehensible, but illegal? Probably not. In fact, in most countries, it seems that the judiciary actively conspires with the entertainment industry to blacken

Re: [fosscomm] Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Sanjeev Gupta gha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 14:58, Guru गुरु g...@itforchange.net wrote: ** Private company as censor... privatised governance and seems clearly illegal The Private Company I work in also acts as a censor, and blocks

Re: [fosscomm] Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger

On Mar 29, 2012 2:40 PM, Sanjeev Gupta gha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 16:42, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@gmail.com wrote: Still (for those who may have missed the point) an office network is not a service to the public at large. And there lies the difference. It might be a case

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: Re: [datameet] National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy 2012 Approved

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:34 PM, j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2012 16:23:59 Vickram Crishna wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.orgwrote: Dear all, I'm sorry it's taken me this long to pass this on. Here's the NDSAP-2012. Some

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: Re: [datameet] National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy 2012 Approved

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.orgwrote: Dear all, I'm sorry it's taken me this long to pass this on. Here's the NDSAP-2012. Some positive features of the draft version, such as linking of the 'negative list' to the RTI Act, are not present in the final

Re: [fosscomm] [event] Ubuntu Cloud Day Bangalore 2012

Bangalore, Prakash? I must say, you like living dangerously :-) What is the provision for, and what kind of attention is being paid to, data security and prevention of data leakage of PII (personally identifiable information), within this Ubuntu cloud exercise? Are you looking beyond persons and

Re: [fosscomm] National Intellectual Property Awards - 2012

I'm equally curious about the unspecified definitions of the last two categories. From a national perspective, is there any concept/implementation of design/development awards that are NOT patented/trademarked, yet are known (reasonably) commonly by some 'name' or 'brand'? Doesn't have to be

Re: [fosscomm] [X-Post] Freedom Fone

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:45 PM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: There is a new book on how to put the systems in place: http://www.flossmanuals.net/freedom-fone/ Freedom Fone was conceived by Kubatana. Founded in 2001, the Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe seeks alternative ways to inform and

Re: [fosscomm] Kerala dept ask for candidates with skills in MS Office

It is typically sloppy use of language. The advt could as easily have read '...must be well versed in use of computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentation slideshows.' 2011/12/6 Guru गुरु g...@itforchange.net ** see attachment... would this not be violative of

Re: [fosscomm] Spoken Tutorial Project - IIT Bombay, Interest in getting involved with you !

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: I must also add that inspite of my rants in this thread, I am more than happy to see the IIT's opening out and enabling everyone else to benefit from their expertise and appreciate all the effort. It has been both educative and

Re: [fosscomm] Spoken Tutorial Project - IIT Bombay, Interest in getting involved with you !

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:49 AM, sajan venniyoor venniy...@gmail.comwrote: On 17 October 2011 10:54, j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: So how can a content creator allow content to be usable for free where there are no financial gains but restrict when someone is making financial gains ? You

Re: [fosscomm] Public consultation on Draft National Policy on Information Technology 2011 released 7/10/11

Sibal has given an interview, at some length, to Tehelka, covering both the 2G scam and Lokpal Bill troubles. A read of this will show that, as far as the thinking of such people goes, there can be nothing positive that does not involve vast investment from the private sector. His entire analysis,

Re: [fosscomm] Jaws Screen Reading software to be used by Bangalore University for visually impaired students

Can people with contact to Bangalore University (which in turn is doubtless filled with busy people tasked with a name change) find out by what process this decision was made? Was there an attempt to publicly source alternate software? If audio cassettes were distributed, has there been any

Re: [fosscomm] Jaws Screen Reading software to be used by Bangalore University for visually impaired students

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:11 PM, sajan venniyoor venniy...@gmail.comwrote: On 26 September 2011 11:55, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@gmail.com wrote: If audio cassettes were distributed, has there been any attempt to source DAISY compatible digifiles, or to create relevant source material using

Re: [fosscomm] Elcot drops Linux from 9 Lakh free laptop program

that such a thing could have ever happened. But certainly we must talk with the said organisation. I think Mr Santosh Babu holds the authority as far as my latest knowledge about ELCOT goes. Happy hacking. Krishnakant. On 01/09/11 15:36, Vickram Crishna wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Vivek

Re: [fosscomm] Workshops in Mumbai and Bangalore on Public educational software tools on 26/27 Aug

2011/8/16 Guru गुरु g...@itforchange.net ** Friends for those who have been considering migrating to public software, two workshops next week... FOSS in education workshop in Mumbai... by CDAC on Aug 26/27. See details in mail below for registration form/process. They are priced at Rs

[fosscomm] Fwd: Open Source Wifi for all

fyi... http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/237323/open_source_effort_will_deliver_lowcost_wifi_for_all.html -- the new open80211s (o11s) technology will enable the development and rollout of large-scale mesh Wi-Fi networks for roughly half the cost of a traditional network I thought

Re: [fosscomm] M$ in Bengal [OT]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:03 PM, j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: On Monday 01 Aug 2011 23:53:12 A. Mani wrote: Another problem with lobbies being part of the ministry. http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/it-minister-promises-microsoft- assistance-in-bengal/444310/ Seems e-governance

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: Your post reg e-filing only on Microsoft Excel format

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Terence Monteiro terenc...@cpan.org wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Debayan Banerjee debaya...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/25 Guru गुरु g...@itforchange.net Friends we

Re: [fosscomm] Free Knowledge requires FOSS

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:54 PM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: From the wikipedia founder's blog Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formats By Jimmy Wales People sometimes ask me why I’m so adamant that Wikipedia must always use free software, even when in some cases

[fosscomm] Legal options WAS AICTE Expert Empanelment

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:21 AM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:04 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: The link is on www.aicte-india.org (scripts need to be enabled) There is a pdf help file too Where? and what will be use of that. .

Re: [fosscomm] Bye Bye Skype, Top 3 Free Replacements

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:14 PM, ankur bajaj ankurbaj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi skype has paid multiple user video chat , does any software provide that for free? - Sounds like a whole bunch of detailed questions are bound to rise up when choices like this emerge. Can somebody sketch up a

Re: [fosscomm] Why are We Cross-posting ??

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: Having said which... A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ... people who are not used

Re: [fosscomm] Wikileaks, Internet and Democracy - signature campaign

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Senthil S senthil...@yahoo.com wrote: *Wikileaks, Internet and Democracy | http://wiki-leaks.wikispaces.com/* Here is an excerpt from the Hindu Editorial which apprehends about the threat to freedom to

Re: [fosscomm] [Feedback] Draft of National Policy on ICT in Education

+1, but otoh On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:12 PM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2011 17:32:30 Pravin Dhayfule wrote: Subject: [Feedback] Draft of National Policy on ICT in Education To: school5@nic.in, mdilipkumar@nic.in, carakhongwar@nic.in Honorable

Re: [fosscomm] Digital Aspect of Jan Lokpal Bill

Sanjeev While Narendra's (and followup mails in this thread) may not be excellently drafted from a legal or even a social perspective, the sentiment was clear, and all discussions that nitpick on the shortcomings in wording and avoid focusing on the sentiment itself are to my mind argumentative

Re: [fosscomm] [off-topic] Higher Education in India

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Gaurav Paliwal gaurav.paliwal1...@gmail.com wrote: *Also you might be interested in this : UIDAI biometrics standard contribution (From this college) : 1. http://www.iiitd.edu.in/~richa/ 2. http://www.iiitd.edu.in/~mayank/ 3.

Re: [fosscomm] Please delete the mailing list

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@gmail.comwrote: ? What has happened? Is this in reference to the fact that someone has been copying our posts to other lists? In what way can

Re: [fosscomm] Please delete the mailing list

? What has happened? Is this in reference to the fact that someone has been copying our posts to other lists? In what way can this be prevented, other than by internal trust between ourselves? Do you propose a technological alternative? On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Narendra Sisodiya

Re: [fosscomm] The biggest hurdle in FOSS/GNU/Linux adaptation ((tag: advocacy))

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:17 AM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: On Monday 22 November 2010 01:29:21 Narendra Sisodiya wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:41 AM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote:

Re: [fosscomm] Centre bannes IMA officials for endorsing products

Calvin Coolidge once famously declared that the business of the United States was business. Several of our more voluble leaders (Coolidge was also well-known for his taciturnity), and our silent servants (government servants), appear to believe that the business of India is funny business. But

Re: [fosscomm] Nuclear Risk

2010/11/11 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: On Wednesday 10 Nov 2010, varun.he...@gmail.com wrote: I have just signed a petition to put Indian interests above the interests of foreign nuclear corporations. Please see the mail below and sign the petition at

Re: [fosscomm] Aadhaar software locked in with ‘Win dows'

Not exactly correct, the problem is much worse, actually. If you read below, DDG UIDAI Mr Dalwai actually says that objections to Windows are Kerala-specific, implying that nowhere else in India is non-Windows OS in use. I believe that he needs to be firmly corrected, the decision to prefer FOSS

Re: [fosscomm] Aadhaar software locked in with ‘Win dows'

/Recent_Tenders/MISCELLANEOUS/RFP_ASDMSA_Volume_II.pdf Regards, Prasanth On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jibu Jacob jacj...@gmail.com wrote: From the web site of UIDAI it is seen that the following contracts

Re: [fosscomm] Aadhaar software locked in with ‘Win dows'

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.orgwrote: On Tuesday 02 November 2010 04:46 PM, Vickram Crishna wrote: It depends on what you mean by 'in force'. Expressing a policy and implementing it are quite different things. By in force I meant any policy which

Re: [fosscomm] Aadhaar software locked in with ‘Win dows'

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Prasanth Sugathan prasa...@cyberjuris.inwrote: By in force I meant any policy which is enforceable. For instance, a policy document / statute that states FOSS should be used as opposed to a recommendation to the government by a committee (such as the

Re: [fosscomm] Why software cannot be patented

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:10 AM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: On Thursday 23 September 2010 00:05:05 A. Mani wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:00 PM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: Computable mathematics forms a part of it. so is there some math which cannot be computed? P=/NP? --

Re: [fosscomm] Why software cannot be patented

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:41 AM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 00:05 +0530, A. Mani wrote: While arguing against s/w patents, nobody should try justifying other forms of patents. But I think patents also do some good. As RMS says, patents on real things

Re: [fosscomm] M$- Rajasthan Technical University MOU

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: We dont have much formal FOSS business organizations at least in North India. Once a FOSS business ecosystem comes in being, it can nurture education sector equally well. +1 -- Vickram

Re: [fosscomm] Public Software: On Labels and Context

:11 A. Mani wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@gmail.com wrote: Today, the world's leading economic power happens to be a country that professes to be communist, while in fact practising and leveraging most of the rules and processes that characterise

[fosscomm] Public Software: On Labels and Context

There have been some really interesting discussions over the past couple of weeks, on which I have been catching up, but one comment particularly caught my eye, being something about capitalism, wrt 'public' software and FOSS. It excited an exchange of a lot of words, some of them hot. Those who

Re: [fosscomm] Software Patents - Clarification regarding effect of Ordinance

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan ve...@knowledgecommons.in wrote: I have trimmed this post for the sake of brevity. My reply below. On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@gmail.comwrote: However, while opposing every dubious patent application

Re: [fosscomm] Software Patents - Clarification regarding effect of Ordinance

This definitely needed explaining, thanks. I see nothing wrong (other than the utter failure of patent law to actually spur innovation and protect the inventor) in affording protection (assuming that both law and commerce will one day agree that this is the purpose) to true inventors; however, to

Re: [fosscomm] contact of $35 laptop

[India is so big that you risk being satisfied with your internal market. Don't. The world needs your device and leadership. Your tablet is not an answer or competitor to OLPC's XO laptop, Negroponte wrote.] Without getting into Mr Negroponte's philosophy behind OLPC, about which there is a huge

Re: [fosscomm] NUID update

Debayan and others: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:57 AM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: On Friday 02 July 2010 00:54:06 Debayan Banerjee wrote: On 1 July 2010 12:07, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: Tackling - you mean opposing. Whether the UID is at all a desirable technology is a pretty

Re: [fosscomm] NUID update

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:42 PM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: ... page 13, 38 (c) introduces or causes to be introduced any virus or other computer contaminant. Should make all doze users liable. heh, heh And that should completely satisfy everyone about privacy issues, pie-in-the-sky

Re: [fosscomm] NUID update

That's a good idea, but why waste a whole page on one word, No? On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Debayan Banerjee debaya...@gmail.comwrote: On 30 June 2010 07:12, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: Nice going for Rs.1900Cr. Is there a write up somewhere on fosscomm wiki or elsewhere detailing

[fosscomm] IPv6 - open access publication

From another list: Hi Here is a new open source book on IPv6. You can download a copy from ICONS at http://icons.apnic.net/download/attachments/983220/The+Second+Internet.pdf?version=1 Regards Sunny Original Message Subject: [Ap-ipv6tf] Open Source Book on IPv6 --- The Second

Re: [fosscomm] I've had it Apple and Airtel

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:52 PM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2010 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 19 April, 2010 by minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal. Does that mean that copyright* is in fact a human resource, or that Sibal is interfering

Re: [fosscomm] I've had it Apple and Airtel

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.orgwrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 16:01:11 +0530, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@gmail.com wrote: Does that mean that copyright* is in fact a human resource, or that Sibal is interfering with stuff outside his brief? Copyright

Re: [fosscomm] Success stories

+1 On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking that it would help in advocacy efforts if we could build a page of migration success stories. -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ network

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