On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM, steve <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 03/30/2010 11:02 PM, narendra sisodiya wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:20 PM, steve <[email protected] >> >> - *GNU/Linux : *You are allowed to carry Any Laptop with >> Any Operating >> >> System over it But you can only plug your laptop to >> projector if you have >> GNU/Linux OS over it. If you do not carry such laptop >> then you can ask >> organiser to arrange one for you. >> >> Again too restrictive. There are plenty of FOSS Operating Systems >> out there besides GNU/Linux. >> >> Example ? we are basically want to deny for window and mac. >> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems > > of those, I believe there is a substantial presence of *BSD and Haiku users > in India. > > > >> - *Free Lunch* : You must provide free lunch and evening >> snacks to >> >> all. >> - *No-Coke : *You must not use Cocacola during workshop. >> >> I think this is random. What have these things got to do with FOSS ? >> >> basically coke has trade secret , that is why Open-Cola exist. >> >> > The presence of Open Cola aside, the fact of the matter is almost > everything that we depend on these days has some level of protection of > information. > > I think applying FOSS principles to Cola is going too far. Anyone who does > that is being a hypocrite unless they are also running systems that are not > made from closed hardware (ie: various hardware vendor's ^trade secrets^) > and are not using closed BIOSes to boot 'em up !! > > The entire /reason/ for the FOSS movement is because the people who started > it, believed that /software/ ie: the _source_ is something to be shared. If > these people also say the same thing about colas, engine designs, business > practices, drug research or any other sort of information, that is only > incidental. Those additional beliefs should not just be blindly adopted nor > be mandated in a ^Software^ Conference. > > Thanks again for valuable inputs.
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