[ilugd] open source: try, encourage and discourage - anyway out?

2011-05-17 Thread Mohit Singh
Dear FOSSouls, As we all know, popularity of any open source product over its non-free counterpart is a big achievement for us. There has been an unending trend of such products being acquired by non-free software companies. First we try open source, then we advocate for them and after sometime

Re: [ilugd] open source: try, encourage and discourage - anyway out?

2011-05-17 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: We saw MySQL, Skype and now the next target can be VLC or even firefox. MySQL community edition is still under GPL. Sykpe was ever FOSS? -- With Regards, Mehul Ved ___ Ilugd

Re: [ilugd] open source: try, encourage and discourage - anyway out?

2011-05-17 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Mohit Singh said on Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:34:33PM +0530,: We saw MySQL, Skype and now the next target can be VLC or even firefox. sarcasm Why did you leave out openoffice out of this list? Emacs and vim too are deserving candidates. For some, even the linux kernel deserves to be in the

[ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-05-17 Thread Bharat Verma via LinkedIn
LinkedIn Bharat Verma requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Vinay, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Bharat Accept invitation from Bharat Verma

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-05-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 17 May 2011, Bharat Verma via LinkedIn wrote: Bharat Verma requested to add you as a connection on Added: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi- bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData (http://preview.tinyurl.com/2b4m3yv) -- Raj Mathur

[ilugd] Linux in your browser

2011-05-17 Thread Anupam Jain
From slashdothttp://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/17/0242244/Boot-Linux-In-Your-Browsertoday: *Fabrice Bellard http://bellard.org/, the initiator of the QEMUhttp://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page emulator, wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. You can now boot Linuxhttp://bellard.org/jslinux/ in your

Re: [ilugd] [fosscomm] open source: try, encourage and discourage - anyway out?

2011-05-17 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: We saw MySQL, Skype and now the next target can be VLC or even firefox. skype is not FOSS , even if it is FOSS, we should never use it, it use proprietary format.. Let me speak again -- Open Standards are MORE

Re: [ilugd] [fosscomm] open source: try, encourage and discourage - anyway out?

2011-05-17 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
No company would ever buy any other company which has Software which are licensed under GPLv3.. So one need not to worry about any project which is under GPLv3.. And you can always fork it.. if owner changes license for new version ___ Ilugd mailing

[ilugd] Why are We Cross-posting ??

2011-05-17 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
We are seeing an increasing trend of crossposting of email on most of the LUGs of India.. So can we stop this??? we can choose one or create a FINAL mailing list for this purpose or BAN cross-posting in all LUGs.. We need to think some better solutions.. Constructive replys are highly welcome..

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

2011-05-17 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: We are seeing an increasing trend of crossposting of email on most of the LUGs of India.. So can we stop this??? we can choose one or create a FINAL mailing list for this purpose or BAN cross-posting in