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Suraj | 2 May 2003 11:20

[link] school tool

There is this  wonderful project that is starting  off. The reason why
I'm posting  this here  is that this  tool, though is  technical good,
seems  very shady -  in that  1. it  wants to  dual license  its code,
2. the site  claims the free version  "might" be under the  GPL. So we
should all participate in this projects and vote for GPL and make sure
that if this tool reaches the same fate as that of source forge we can
atleast fork off a new free project and take it further.

  -Suraj

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Tarun Gaur | 3 May 2003 01:14
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Hi Friends

Hi New and old friends,

Was out on a trip. could not contribute much to the amazing world of fsf. A 
short note to say hi to all my friends who believe in the spirit of free 
software.

Regards to all,
Tarun

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Frederick Noronha (FN | 2 May 2003 21:13

Re: Educational case studies

Could FSFIndia help to make this possible? Tks, FN

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Doug Loss wrote:

> Frederick,
> 
>     Could you ask the responsible people at Trivandrum and at Kannur to 
> make case study entries for their Linux implementations at 
> <http://casestudy.seul.org>?   I'd appreciate it.  Thanks!
> 
> 

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Frederick Noronha (FN | 3 May 2003 11:17

Survey for Free Software/Open Source developers... (attn: South Asia)


URL :  http://siepr.stanford.edu/programs/OpenSoftware_David/FLOSS-US_announcement.htm

                                  FLOSS-US

            The Free/Libre/Open Source Software Survey for 2003

            [1]http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft

   A Survey of Software Developers

   FLOSS-US is an online survey currently being conducted by researchers
   at Stanford University's Stanford Institute for Economic Policy
   Research (SIEPR).  It is a part of the study of the Economic
   Organization and Viability of Open Source Software undertaken by
   SIEPR's  Knowledge, Networks and Information for Innovation Program
   (KNIIP) which is being supported by a grant from the National Science
   Foundation.

   This survey has been designed in cooperation with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
   (MERIT and Infonomics, University of Maastricht), who led the FLOSS
   survey of Open Source/Free Software developer communities, carried out
   with the sponsorship of the European Commission during 2002.
   [[2]http://floss1.infonomics.nl]

   To establish comparability with the previous sample of voluntary
   respondents, FLOSS-US asks questions on the same range of topics that
   the original FLOSS survey addressed, including:

   ท         Motivation: monetary / non-monetary, reputation, pleasure,
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Amol Hatwar | 4 May 2003 14:31

RMS in France with the KDE team

Hi all,

The KDE team recently exhibited their stuff to RMS. RMS gave a nod and
called KDE Free :).

More info can be found at this link:
http://phil.freehackers.org/writings/tea-with-stallman.html

ah.

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Amol Hatwar | 4 May 2003 14:22

Slapping Credits on Free Software

Hi all,

I recently caught this story on slashdot. It's about Hans Reiser's (ReiserFS
fame) view about making software author's names more visible.

He also talks about FSF and V3 of the GPL. I'd suggest people who develop
software to have a look :).

Here's the link: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1859244

Regards,

ah.
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Frederick Noronha (FN | 4 May 2003 18:46

COMMENT: Slap the credits everywhere

URL :  http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1859244

     Slap the credits everywhere!

   Friday May 02, 2003 - [ 03:00 PM GMT ]   [20] Print this Article 
   Topic - [21]Open Source

   - by [22]Hans Reiser - 
   Free software is ego-propelled. People don't get paid, they get
   famous. Yet we as a community do far too little to prominently credit
   the names of the authors. I propose we change that by adopting a few
   simple practices.

   Free software is like radio and broadcast television -- easily
   accessible and available to anyone who wants it. As software
   programming gets to be as big as entertainment programming, it begins
   to copy it in other ways. We should consciously pick which of those
   ways we want and as a community create taboos to enforce them now
   before we drift into bad habits that take become de facto rules.

   Do we want free software projects to be as well-funded as soap operas?
   It would be nice if it were so.

   Do we want ads inserted into people's screen backgrounds suggesting
   they lose weight and look stylish by smoking Camels? I think not.

   Do we want people to know the names of the authors of all of the
   software that they frequently use? Sure -- it would result in more and
   harder-working authors.
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searchlight | 6 May 2003 05:41
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Linux Desktop Myths Exploded

STUDY:
Linux Desktop Myths Exploded

By James Maguire
NewsFactor Network
May 05, 2003
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21431.html

Hype about Linux on the desktop is increasing, according to Gartner's recent study, "Myths of Linux on the
Desktop." The goal of the research was to enable enterprises to be objective in understanding the
benefits of the Linux OS on the desktop, separating open-source fact from fiction. 

"I want to stress that I didn't mean to be negative about Linux," Gartner analyst Michael Silver, the
report's author, told NewsFactor. Linux's appropriateness for any given population has a lot to do with
the specifics of each business' environment and its architectures of applications in use, he said. 

To understand the real benefits, enterprises need to realize that some common assertions will prove to be
myths, Silver says. 

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"Supported versions of Linux are not free," Gartner analyst Michael Silver notes. Consumer versions of
Linux are basically free, but "enterprises that require vendor support for their client OS will need to
pay for it." 
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Myth: Linux Will Be Less Expensive 

Many Linux proponents argue that using Linux instead of Windows saves a substantial chunk of change
because StarOffice/OpenOffice.org then can be used instead of Microsoft Office.
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Frederick Noronha (FN | 7 May 2003 05:12

SITEWATCH -- Indic Computing: Design Axes for the Indian Language Computing Market


URL             :  http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/designaxes
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   [12]The Indic Computing Project > [13]Design Axes for the Indian
   Language Computing Market
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Design Axes for the Indian Language Computing Market

Joseph Koshy

   The Indic-Computing project

   Copyright ฉ 2003 by A. Joseph Koshy

   $Date: 2003/04/30 07:23:50 $

   Abstract

   Despite nearly four decades of work, computing in local languages
   remains unavailable to the common man in the Indian subcontinent. In
   this article we identify seven core issues, namely [14]power,
   [15]usability, [16]interoperability, [17]locality of information,
   [18]value addition, the effect of [19]social structure and the quality
   of the supporting [20]development ecosystem, that need to be addressed
   before pervasive Indian language computing can become a reality. We
   analyse a few existing projects and show that the levels of success
   achieved by these is consistent with their tackling of these seven
   core issues. Finally, we present a ``road map'' for making computing
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Frederick Noronha (FN | 7 May 2003 04:59

KDE has tea with Stallman... one view


URL :  http://phil.freehackers.org/writings/tea-with-stallman.html

                         KDE has tea with Stallman

                                                        [1]Philippe Fremy

                             Tea with Stallman

   For Linux Solutions 2003 (see my [2]report) , the french KDE team
   thought that we could take the oppurtunity to improve our relationship
   with RMS. He seems to accepts KDE as fully free software now. So we
   invited him for a tea, to show him the latest KDE and discuss. He
   accepted.

   As promised, RMS came to visit us and see KDE after his conference. We
   thought he would just had a quick look but it turns out that he stayed
   for an hour! We had tea, we had biscuits, we had chairs, knoppix with
   KDE 3.1 and a laptop for demonstration.

   One question I wanted to ask him for a long time is how often he runs
   X . The answer was the one I had forcast: "sometimes". Most of the
   time, he is using emacs in terminal mode for more or less everything.

   He asked me what I was doing and I talk about [3]KVim. He said
   something like: "I can't tell if I am more sorry for vim or for KDE".
   We then talked a bit about emacs and if an embeddable version could be
   made for KDE, like for the vimpart.

   Gerard ask him if emacs was using gettext and could be translated. It
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