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Raj Mathur | 1 May 2004 06:33

Re: Transcript of speech on Free Software by RMS


>>>>> "Vijay" == Vijay Kumar <ec10052@...> writes:

    Vijay> The transcript of RMS' speech at the National Institute of
    Vijay> Technology, Trichy is available from
    Vijay> http://glugt.linuxisle.com/projects.shtml

When was this speech given?

    Vijay> A few quotes from the speech:

    Vijay> [snip]
    Vijay> * Well, there are
    Vijay> lots of people in India who might be able to afford the
    Vijay> computer, but couldn't possibly afford the software,
    Vijay> because they can just barely afford a computer. So free
    Vijay> software can make a big difference in terms of who in India
    Vijay> can get a computer and run it.
    Vijay> [more snip]

Isn't this open source philosophy rather than free software
philosophy?  Should price matter in the case of software?  Should we
start using MS (or whatever other package takes your fancy) just
because they price their products at 0?

Regards,

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Rakesh 'arky' Ambati | 1 May 2004 22:28
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Spam problems

Hello List,

  I have a seen a considerable increase in spam and
auto-remailing virus in my mailbox.Is it possible to
prevent to mask email addresses on mailing list
archives.

TIA 

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Rakesh 'arky' Ambati | 2 May 2004 10:30
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Re: Spam problems


--- Rishi <rishi@...> wrote:
> On Sunday 02 May 2004 1:58 am, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati
> wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> >   I have a seen a considerable increase in spam
> and
> > auto-remailing virus in my mailbox.Is it possible
> to
> > prevent to mask email addresses on mailing list
> > archives.
> 
> Hi
> 
> Don't know about masking of e-mail addresses but
> this service called Spam 
> Arrest is really great..
> 
> http://spamarrest.com
> 
> They have a 30 day free trial and I haven't received
> a single spam since. 

hi, 

 Is this GNU/Free software ? 
  I have addressesed the email to mailing-list admin.

  --arky
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Anand Babu | 2 May 2004 11:12
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Re: Spam problems

--- Rishi <rishi@...> wrote:

,----[ Rakesh 'arky' Ambati <rakesh_ambati@...> ]
| I have a seen a considerable increase in spam and auto-remailing
| virus in my mailbox.Is it possible to prevent to mask email
| addresses on mailing list archives.
`----
You can disable your email identity through MailMan web interface.

Option:
Conceal yourself from subscriber list?: Say Yes

SpamAssassin (www.spamassassin.org) is a good spam filtering 
Free Software.

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Anand Babu
Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>
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Frederick Noronha (FN | 2 May 2004 12:41

[twnfeatures] World Summit on Information Society Skirts three key issues

Interesting debate. More knowledge needs to be in the public domain; we 
need to extend the debate beyond software. FN

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World Intellectual Property Rights Day
26th April 2004

WORLD SUMMIT ON INFORMATION SOCIETY
SKIRTS THREE KEY ISSUES

The recent World Summit on the Information Society adopted a declaration 
and action plan aimed at ‘a people-oriented information society where 
everyone can create, access and share information and knowledge’. However, 
due to basic disagreements, decisions were postponed on two key issues 
(global Internet governance and creating a Digital Solidarity Fund) while 
another key issue (intellectual property) was hardly addressed.

By Martin Khor
Third World Network Features

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) ended with the adoption 
of a declaration and action plan aimed at ‘a people-oriented information 
society where everyone can create, access and share information and knowledge’.

The Declaration has 11 key principles and the Plan of Action contains 147 
proposals. Many familiar issues in the discussion on the information age 
found their way into the Summit documents, such as the right to 
information, equity, access, the right to cultural identity and diversity, 
local content, and building the capacity of the poor and marginalised.
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Rishi | 2 May 2004 19:08

Re: Spam problems

On Sunday 02 May 2004 2:00 pm, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
>  Is this GNU/Free software ?
>   I have addressesed the email to mailing-list admin.

I don't know but doubt it. It's currently being offerred as a service not a 
software to download and use..

Rishi
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Arun M | 3 May 2004 06:21
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IT@...

On 26th April teachers union from Kerala, KSTA, made a protest
demonstration in front of IT@... project (school IT education program
of Govt of Kerala). 
One of the issues raised in this protest was lack of teacher training in
GNU/Linux.
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Titty Jacob | 3 May 2004 08:13
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Sun considers GPL license for Solaris


http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/30/HNsolarisgpl_1.html

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Mahesh T. Pai | 3 May 2004 09:59

Re: [Fsf-friends] Sun considers GPL license for Solaris

Titty Jacob said on Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:43:37AM +0530,:

 > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/30/HNsolarisgpl_1.html

Groklaw says:- take that with a pinch of salt. 

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040501065720686

<quote> (quoting Jonnathan Schwartz at
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/30/HNsolarisgpl_1.html

	"Still, Sun has its  apprehensions. 'What worries us about the
	GPL  is  its capacity  to  encourage  forking, because  what's
	happened in Linux is that Red Hat has forked. Not in the sense
	that the  kernel is different  ... It's forked because  if you
	write to  the Red  Hat distribution, you  can't go and  run on
	Debian.' . . . "
</quote>

Coming from the  COO of a large IT corporate, which  sells an OS based
on  BSD codebase,  this displays  a remarkable  level of  ignorence of
POSIX compliance. (forget the kernel, FHS and the GPL).
	
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Rajkumar S | 4 May 2004 05:00

Playfair News

Some more press coverage

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0503freesoft.html

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/03/HNundauntedbyapple_1.html

raj
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