On Monday 30 Jun 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 29-Jun-08, at 7:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
[snip]
Some licences like the GPL force you to provide source code for a
nominal fee along with binaries at the user's request;
I thought all OSI licenses force you to do this
Once again, you need
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
ultimately law is made by the supreme court. There is no such thing
as 'settled law', laws are always subject to change - just needs a
larger bench of the supreme court to do so. And when the court looks
at any law, they look at the
On 30-Jun-08, at 3:49 PM, Dinesh Shah wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
ultimately law is made by the supreme court. There is no such thing
as 'settled law', laws are always subject to change - just needs a
larger bench of the supreme court to do so. And when
On 30-Jun-08, at 3:39 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
If someone wants to buy a FOSS package it is perfectly legal and, IMO,
moral to sell it to her. After all, the package remains doesn't
become
proprietary by the mere fact of sale -- it remains FOSS.
question is: when you 'sell' FOSS do you
+++ Kenneth Gonsalves [30/06/08 14:11 +0530]:
I would tend to the opinion that sale of any software, let alone FOSS
is illegal, immoral and an act of cheating - the only point is, that
the courts have to recognise this.
According to all FOSS licences, the software itself need not be
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
question is: when you 'sell' FOSS do you charge VAT or do you charge
service tax. We recently 'bought' a FOSS package for 3 lakhs. We were
charged service tax to the tune of 36,000. If we had 'bought' a
proprietary
On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
I would tend to the opinion that sale of any software, let alone FOSS
is illegal, immoral and an act of cheating - the only point is, that
the courts have to recognise this.
According to all FOSS licences, the software itself need not
On 30-Jun-08, at 6:10 PM, Anand Shankar wrote:
I believe the two are FOSS. And as per the GoI contract document, it
is VAT instead of Service Tax!! If you were to emphasis interpret
more closely /emphasis, it means most Government Departments are
ending up buying FOSS, and that too as a
+++ Kenneth Gonsalves [30/06/08 20:41 +0530]:
software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
only be shared.
And you would gladly share for a neat sum of money?
In the Gurukul system, knowledge was gladly shared for next to nothing.
- Sandip
--
Sandip Bhattacharya
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:41:22 +0530
Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
[snip]
software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
only be shared.
Bought any books lately?
On 30-Jun-08, at 9:42 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
only be shared.
And you would gladly share for a neat sum of money?
In the Gurukul system, knowledge was gladly shared for next to
nothing.
quote
If I have an idli
On 30-Jun-08, at 9:46 PM, Jasbir Khehra wrote:
Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
[snip]
software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can
only be shared.
Bought any books lately?
yes - bought two, one on
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