I have recieved five such messages today, same also about 10days ago. What is this please, is everyone recieving or am I the only one ?
K.Ghosh On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:52:11 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > by mail.flora.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8KJCaH04082 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:12:36 -0400 > Received: from bytesforall.org > (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [61.1.74.236]) by > goatelecom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g8KJOXj16486 for > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 00:54:33 +0530 (IST) > Received: from localhost (fred@localhost) by bytesforall.org > (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01728 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, > 20 Sep 2002 23:44:47 +0530 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:44:47 +0530 (IST) > From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ilug-cal] What makes Free/Libre and Open Source Software > (FLOSS) attractive? Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Precedence: bulk > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > European Union Researches the Benefits of Open Source Software > -------------------------------------------------------------- > [Desi angle to an international study...] > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/09/16/platform.html > > European Union Researches the Benefits of Open Source Software > by Andy Oram > 09/16/2002 > > Editor's Note: Andy Oram reports on the possible implications of a > recent study that explored the reasons behind the widespread use of, > and support for, free and open source software. > > A major research project under the name Free/Libre and Open Source > Software: Survey and Study, or FLOSS, recently explored reasons behind > the widespread use of, and support for, free and open source software. > This is, to my knowledge, the first large-scale, rigorous study > concerning any aspect of free software. It involves interviews with > thousands of developers and hundreds of businesses, with > carefully-chosen questions and a correlation of results. > > ----------------------- > > FN's comments: > > Don't miss this. > > Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, chief writer of the FLOSS study, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > has been in the Netherlands for just two years. Before that he was > based in Delhi, and closely involved in the Indian internet/telecom > scene, though he stopped writing for PCQ/DQ/Asianage in 1996. Rishab > had his own newsletter, Indian Techonomist, going out to people like > Reed Hundt and Vint Cerf, and he wrote various consultation papers on > the opening up Internet policy(especially to small providers) on the > request of telecom secretaries such as Takkar and Gokak. Googling > "Indian Telecom" still shows up his site as two of the top four hits, > even though "it's heavily cobwebbed", as Rishab says! He's keen to > find out the number of active LUG members in India too. Is that > somehow possible? > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
