[silk] Indian IP laws are the world's most consumer friendly

2009-05-08 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
with copyright regimes that 'most disregard the interests of consumers' was also an 'odd grouping'. This included the country in which the copyright law was first developed in the 16th century - Britain. Together with it were 'developing and transitional economies, w

[silk] FN's tech links, mainly from South Asia :: Oct 1, 2008

2008-09-30 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) FN's tech links, mainly from South Asia :: Oct 1, 2008 (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) The Centre for Internet & Society Bangalore http://cis-india.org/ Goobimama's Soggy Blog http://goobimama.blogsp

[silk] Lyx, My Beautiful GNU/Linux, Mind-Maps, and DP

2008-09-29 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]
Some videos from Goa, mainly around Software Freedom Day at BITS Pilani Goa campus. FN My beautiful [GNU]Linux BITS-Pilani Goa campus has grown over the past four to five years, and now has over 2000 students on the outskirts of Vasco/Dabolim. At a Software Freedom Day held on the campus recently

[silk] Voices on the alternative side... options to copyright, proprietorial software, and much more.... (Sunder Raman, Open Views on KRUULP)

2008-02-23 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]
, Iowa... Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490

[silk] From India, a magazine that looks at Open Publishing ...

2008-02-19 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]
u can download it at http://i4donline.net/feb08/feb08.pdf FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 The Goa books blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com Goa1556 (alt.publishing.goa): http://goa1556.goa-india.org

[silk] Taking a look... at some recent developments in Urdu computing (from BytesForAll, South Asia)

2007-12-17 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]
he fact that there are so many Urdu keyboard layouts while not having any standard set, made it more complex to achieve my goal. Finally I end up sticking with Microsoft Urdu keyboard, but the options for clear fonts type still lacks. * * * -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +

[silk] Unwrapping ideas at latest 'unconference'

2007-10-22 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]
onvenient for some, especially since the four venues were far apart. The term 'BarCamp' was first coined when a couple of geeks revolted against not being invited to open source publishing luminary Tim O'Reilly's annual invitation-only participant driven conference Foocamp.

[silk] ICANN meeting... a report from San Juan (Deirdre Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> via Bytesforall)

2007-06-27 Thread Frederick Noronha [फर ॆडरीक नोर ोनया]
es - and that goes far beyond English, French and Spanish :-) Best wishes Deirdre -- FN: Frederick Noronha http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts Phone 0091-832-2409490 Cell: 091-9822122436 or 9970157402 (after 1 pm) Copying a film on copyright! GOOD COPY BAD COPY: a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/

[silk] Computer graveyards in Karachi/ Reba ki Diary: Karachi ki 'Computer breaking industry'

2007-03-05 Thread Frederick Noronha
FEEDBACK TO: Reba Shahid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computer graveyards in Karachi/ Reba ki Diary: Karachi ki 'Computer breaking industry' Technological innovation has ushered forth an age of gadgets and a race to get the latest, fastest, sleekest computer. This in turn has reduced the life span PCs, w

[silk] (Politician) Patil wants bar on Orkut

2006-12-09 Thread Frederick Noronha
http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/nov/23orkut.htm File reply on plea for ban on Orkut: HC November 23, 2006 20:05 IST The Bombay high court on Thursday asked the state government to file its reply in connection with a petition demanding a ban on social networking site, Orkut, for hosting an anti-S

[silk] INDIA ... RURAL WIRELESS MESH: Warren Noronha's AirJaldi posting

2006-11-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
/freelinking/WiFi [4] http://www.bytesforall.net/freelinking/CyberCafe [5] http://www.bytesforall.net/freelinking/AirJaldi [6] http://www.olsr.org/ [7] warren.noronha at gmail.com -- ---------- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org

[silk] Battleground of ideas: FLOSS debate raises tempers at BytesForAll

2005-10-23 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
Battleground of ideas: FLOSS debate raises tempers at BytesForAll APC member BytesForAll's mailing list[1] recently played host to a strong, and at times polemical, debate on proprietary-versus-FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software). In this debate, there were these couple of great posts here

[silk] FSFE: Early comment on new Microsoft Shared Source Licenses

2005-10-21 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
Would you believe this? FN Forwarded Message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] Early comment on new Microsoft Shared Source Licenses Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:44:07 -0200 [for immediate release] FSFE: Early comment on new Microsoft Shared Source Licenses "S

[silk] Free and Open Source Software: A Blind Alley for Developing Countries? [With a comment added by FN]

2005-10-11 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
in my view, study can be found at http://www.maailma.kaapeli.fi/FLOSSReport1.0.html (this poster had a role to play in part of the Maailma report).] -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/