Re: [plug] OT: company is applying for software patents, need advice

2008-10-08 Thread Rommel Feria
Wow! SOFTWARE PATENT Better call JJ Disini and ask him to check this out. This SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED! On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Holden Hao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM, KRTorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our company is applying for patents to our soft

Re: [plug] St. Paul's College goes Microsoft

2008-09-16 Thread Rommel Feria
I know that Eric's post has a tad of humour attached to it but whilst I think it is a good idea at the moment, the fact that we need to recognize the shortcomings of Linux is also important for the newbies here. We are not supporting Linux as an end-all OS without issues (each OS has its quirks) so

Re: [plug] FOSS-powered IT education

2008-08-12 Thread Rommel Feria
No exams for transfer students. On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Slim Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/11, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > UP in Diliman has a very pro-active faculty with regards to open > > source, as well as a student lug > > Sounds great. I'll be crawling the

Re: [plug] FOSS-powered IT education

2008-08-11 Thread Rommel Feria
UP Diliman! :P On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Slim Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm (sorry for using an alias) thinking of going back to school to get > an IT-related degree, most probably plain ComSci. So I'm looking for a > college or university which is either biased in favor of free sof

Re: [plug] Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008

2008-08-05 Thread Rommel Feria
Lecture Hall, Department of Computer Science2nd Floor, UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall Velasquez St, UP Diliman Quezon City :) On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Pablo Manalastas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The ve

Re: [plug] Update on July 19 Mini Meet

2008-07-23 Thread Rommel Feria
This is great! Can you UStream.tv the meeting? That way, we can participate via the chat room. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Gabriel H. Mercado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friends, > > I would like to update everyone on the meeting at Starbucks Araneta Center > last week. > > >- I had the

Re: [plug] PDA/Phone programming platform (was: Openmoko Neo ...)

2008-07-11 Thread Rommel Feria
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sabi ni Doc Ambo noong Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:54 PM: > > 6. J2ME. This is what the folks (at the Ateneo Java Wireless Competency > > Center) use. Using Java, all they have to do is learn one tool set (and > the > > implementation deta

Re: [plug] PDA/Phone programming platform (was: Openmoko Neo ...)

2008-07-11 Thread Rommel Feria
Hi, On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4. iPhone SDK. Has anyone in PLUG any idea what this is? Has anyone ever > downloaded it? It is an SDK for the iPhone! :P Anyway, it is NOT open sourced and deploying apps require that you sign-up (and get app

[plug] St. Paul's College goes Microsoft

2008-07-10 Thread Rommel Feria
< http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080711-147772/RP-college-replaces-open-source-system-with-Microsoft-OS > Folks - why are we still getting press releases like this one? Shouldn't we be covering the schools already? I mean, PLUG should help schools to keep using FOSS. The

Re: [plug] by law, FOSS is now the default in Ecuador

2008-04-21 Thread Rommel Feria
Yes! Bwahahaha! On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Rage Callao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Open standards... you mean like OOXML? > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Rommel Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the preference should be OPEN STANDARD

Re: [plug] by law, FOSS is now the default in Ecuador

2008-04-18 Thread Rommel Feria
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Rage Callao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During the House committee hearing on the FOSS bill, the PSIA had stated > their objections to it. I wonder with Winston Damarillo being their new > "chief" will they be singing a different tune this time around. I think the

[plug] Protest?

2008-04-09 Thread Rommel Feria
Norway's computer experts protesting OOXML - < http://www.gmanews.tv/story/88536/Computer-experts-protest-vs-Microsoft-document-format-as-standard >. Whilst the Philippines claim that the process is transparent, it is not transparent enough. We need to know details as to who sent 10 comments in fav