On Wednesday 25 May 2005 10:32 pm, Greg King wrote: > I'm not sure where I got this (maybe the gnu.org site) but I read somewhere > that GNU tools make up about 38% of a typical Linux distro when measured in > lines of source code. The kernel itself is about 3%, and the remainder is > other packages. > > There is an audience video of the event now on the web. The official video > made by UoC com-media is still residing on tape. We hope to convert it to an > open source, oops free software, format and post it on the cuug site soon. > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: Richard Stallman's talk on Software Patents > From: "gordon mcdowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, May 25, 2005 12:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
Hey, I'm one of the other guys who captured a vidieo, but I want to find out what video codec CUUG wanted (free) to go with oog audio. ? Guess I should email their exec and ask for Brain to get back to me. Mel Walters > Hey, I'm one of the guys who brought a video camera to RMS's talk. > > I've uploaded a copy of the video to Internet Archive. > > It can be accessed directly at... > http://www.archive.org/details/RMS-20050518-SoftwarePatents > > Or thru my video blog where I track all my IA uploads... > http://opensourcevideo.blogspot.com/ > > Thought you might want to put a link up for anyone who missed it. -Gord > -------------------------------------- > > Regards, Greg > > > > Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:28:01 -0600 > > From: Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Stallman Presentation Overview > > To: CLUG General <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > I guess I should reiterate one point... :) > > > > Seeing as Gentoo box is source based, the gcc compiler plays a very > > important > > role, and gcc is a GNU package. But, when you look at the number of > > packages > > on my system as a whole, I believe the GNU packages constitute a very > > small > > percentage... > > > > Shawn > > > > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 16:22, Shawn wrote: > > > I can understand this view to some extent, but agree with the underlying > > > meaning of the previous messages in this thread. The GNU parts are just > > a > > > part of the whole, there are other tools/resources in there that are not > > > part of the GNU project. > > > > > > Personally I run Gentoo on my systems, and other than those packages > > that > > > are licensed under the GPL, I believe GNU plays a very small part on my > > > system(s) though I haven't done a thorough audit to be sure.. :) > > > > > > From my perspective, I don't think anyone in our group is belittling > > GNU's > > > contribution to the success of Linux and open source (Mr. Stallman > > really > > > doesn't like that term... ). We recognize the importance of the FSF > > (It's > > > mentioned very well on our brochure), but to change our name to favor > > one > > > part of the whole doesn't make sense to me. > > > > > > My thoughts. > > > > > > Shawn > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > -- Mel Walters (Synergy with Computers) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 314D E737 4589 95A3 ED7B E766 E971 D7E7 1E22 B9F3
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