thank you .. once its on a website, all will be able to see, read and spread his msg far and wide
for info of all members : RMS was extremely friendly i've not been able to post earlier a bit of history which was made dr. nagarjuna g. was very active during this visit. so were us all. after many hours of talking to dr.N the welcoming of RMS at airport on his landing was set aside. also put off was the idea of meeting him in the morning of next day by those who wanted to dr.N put forward an idea (detailed in earlier email) which led to a meeting at webel guest house. compass prez authorised hemant to go for the discussions. result was the inclusion of compass name as those with whom fsf.org.in is working for furthering its cause. also decided at that discussion was the idea of participation in the meeting at IT Dept. saugata was also informed. he was to bring along ankur bangla cd and come to IT dept office. before leaving, i met RMS. he was happy and friendly. on learning about T's marriage, he expressed the hope that marrying would not lessen T's commitment to fsf. when RMS consented to 'blessing' the newly weds, i called up T but got mrs.T on the other end. RMS had virtually little time. yet he showered blessings and gave advice to mrs.T i told him about the zero budget initiative on helping VT's (victims of tsunami). he had his own comments on the relief/rehab NOT happening properly and on' how relief/rehab is implemented poorly. i told him about the forthcoming compass2005 event and requested him to be there thru internet. he agreed. he will be in south america at that time. i suggested an interactive q&a participation. he okay'ed that. then the issue of not good bandwitdth came up. i proposed using the ancient tech, telephone, and that was easy to say yes to. he is to be called up. (we now need a sponsor for the connection of about an hour every day for 5 days) we left for the IT Dept meeting on the way down, i was chatting with RMS and found out that his stickers were were not enough for his trip. i offered to help. RMS said he will send the digital image so that printing can be done. on the driveway, it was bright sunlight. for the records and for reporting to compass we requested and got a snap in the 3D camera which i was carrying. we moved in separate cars. we arrived a few minutes late. T called up to be sure that it was RMS who 'blessed' the mrs. T i confirmed that it was. on his requst to talk to RMS i asked to hold on and went about locating. T was lucky, and i got RMS to congratulate T thru cellphone then there were some movements which are off-list for understandable reasons. at the end of it all, i got honourable minister to put his autograph on sdg's FIRST burn of ankur bangla cd pointing out that it had been authenticated by sdg himself. that done, i requested RMS to do the same. he did. done ! end of history being made. in the evening i got a call from dr.N for help. the laptop of RMS was not co-operating. calling up a few people, we could organize a spare/new laptop (courtesy RH) and also for a repairman from IBM to go to RMS. lots of cross talk btwn dr.N, RMS, RH, IBM, me, hemant resulted in a simple solution. sudip (IT promotion cell guy) would carry the faulty laptop to IBM next day morning. IBM would repair it on top priority. backup laptop would be delivered to RMS. failing repair in time for his departure the next day, his laptop would be sent to delhi by RH guys and would be handed over to RMS before he departs from delhi. the backup laptop would be taken back and sent to calcutta. dr.N was to get back with decision. since there was no call. we believed that things were sorted out. next day i called up dr.N to learn that they left for kgp pronto and at 2am in the night, the laptop went live ! so thank you for the help. his lecture was over. i put in a request for fans to see off RMS at dum dum. dr.N was to confirm from concerned people and call back. there was very little time btwn 1pm (then) and 5pm (departure time). yet attempting was in order. this i did. something prevented this 'happening' and so i couldn't do anything. sorry. end of telling. comments : other OS'es are unable to address the needs of so many demands, from sooo many users and user groups and gnu-linux and linux do fill in those needs. (like desktop localisation in ALL indian languages, scientific applications, geographic apps, audio/video editing, mp3 apps, etc, and all these for free of charge, copyright, restrictions) therefore, we are mere observers of metamorphosis and evolution of user habits. things are happening. we see. we go along. there is no competition any more. there is compLetion of one by the other all have their niches. and followers. many have to work as per needs of employers. which includes working on unix, oracle, NOS, MacOs, etc future is as unpredicatble as ever we will be seeing it unfold. time has come to accept, tolerate, co-operate and bring indians in particular and humans in general a bit above from where they are now end of comments end of msg .. p i I ----- Original Message ----- From: "hizibiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:09 PM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Video of the Speech by RMS, calcutta/kgp feb 2005 > i'm a man with little or no legal background. it would be very unwise to > comment on this issue. as far as RMS's speech is concerned, he has done > enough favour by permitting us to record and publish the speech. just wait > for a couple of days so that i can arrange some web space to host it. > tks & regs > -hizibiz > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, peekay wrote: > > > does the 'copyright' vest in the one who speaks and is video'ed ? > > or is this 'copyleft' .. left to copy ? > > > > ..p i I > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "hizibiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:32 AM > > Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] BF & RMS Update > > > > > > > it will be done with prior permission and advise of the speaker ! > > > tks > > <snipped> > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. 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