> My mobile is low end and forces me to type mails the way i type sms.
Use T9 input.
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>> Also, since not all of them are being held at the same place, it is
>> difficult for the audience to visit each of them. If you spread it
>> around the year, you might have the same people getting to visit
>> all of
>> them.
>
> which is not desirable - that is what is happening now
Why is it n
On 18-Jan-08, at 5:39 PM, Sriram J wrote:
> is it possible to pirate a linux distro.
> i mean if i make a copy of a linux cd and give to a friend free is it
> piracy.
You are encouraged to distribute as many copies as you like. It is not
piracy.
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On 14-Jan-08, at 1:12 PM, Sriram J wrote:
> So i am back to my original question
> Does the idea of open source take precedence over usability.
It's simply a matter of personal preference / ideals. I know people
who would not use proprietary software even if it out-performs or is
more usable t
> With all tata & reliance data cards/ usb modems.. there is voice+sms
> feature, which works only in the windows interface.. has there been
> any R&D into getting voice+sms working in Linux? or where to find more
> clues on how to use it or reverse engg. it?
SMS Server tools [1] works with exist
On 03-Dec-07, at 9:20 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
> 1. MP3 is covered by software patents.
>
> 2. India does not have software patents.
>
> When you put (1) and (2) together, the only conclusion that you can
> reach is that MP3 is not patentable in India, and hence free to use.
OTOH, the headline of tod
> what gives?
> anybody, jimi hendrix wants to know are you experienced?
> have you ever connected a spankin' new pod straight out of the box
> to the
> linux thing
> and got it singin' the blue-screen of death metal?
It depends on the firmware version. All versions except the latest
one are s
> Open source game development won't work.. but game development using
> open source source software will.. let me give you my 2 rupees.. :D
The accepted practice as far as open source game development goes is to
keep all the 'code' open, and just that.
A viable business model is to keep the code
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> it is not distro specific - I have seen the same problem in firefox
> on mandriva2007, Ubuntu 6.10, and on a Mac. On all these three
> platforms konq (on linux) and safari (on mac) render perfectly. And
> so does *every* single other application on these platforms.
http://planet.linux-delhi.org/ gives an empty directory index.
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Perhaps you could expand the topics of interest posted for the RGF-Sarai
FLOSS fellowships to include areas such as multimedia tools?
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PJ wrote:
> Maybe the proprietary OSX UI layer would count, since it wraps a BSD based
> system. But I'm not sure it really matters, since it is just a wrapper, so
> you could do the same to a GPL based system. I'll only really worry about
> usurping if Apple becomes dominant, rather than the 2nd t
Raj Mathur wrote:
> On Monday 07 May 2007 13:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> just a clarification - is it the official policy to exclude
>> BSD-licensed stuff or foss on non-linux platforms from the scope of
>> the conference?
>
> No it is not. We are open to all FLOSS projects and licenses.
*ph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> as far as I am concerned, both gpl and bsd style licenses have their place. I
> would reserve gpl for really innovative code (and there is very little of
> that)
> and keep bsd style licenses for the rest. Incidently how come things like
> apache
> and postgresql are su
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Is there any other way that the BSD is better for developers
> than the GPL is?
Yes, it allows your software to be linked -or- bundled along with
software licensed under the so-called "GPL-incompatible" licenses;
something that isn't possible in the GPL (the LGPL
PJ wrote:
> The GPL compatible licences are designed to preserve freedom for the users.
> The BSD style licences have helped Microsoft take away freedom from the users.
I disagree. Something licensed under the BSD license always remains free
and the source code open to all. It is only when changes
>> Well, in software,
>> there are several known examples where Microsoft has taken BSD code, altered
>> it, and tried to lock users in to their way of doing things so that they can
>> exploit them forever after. To an extent they have succeeded more than
>> failed.
>
> This is the reason why GPL
>>> Is this e-mail client Free Software?
>
>> does your cellphone run on free software?
>
> My cellphone does not have an email client. So it is like asking
> whether your fridge runs on Free Software.
But you use GMail, which most definitely isn't Free Software :)
Point is; there are still ple
> And please, for those focusing on the "practical side of Linux", it
> would be best that you stay away from this discussion. You obviously
> don't look at the larger picture. There would be no Linux/FOSS if people
> only focused on the "practical side".
BS. F/OSS was doing great without all t
>> (b) Does MS' presence at LA
>> contribute to that focus or detract from it
>
> contributes
+1. By actually spending a lot of money on LinuxAsia, Microsoft has
publicly acknowledged that fact that F/OSS is a force to be contend
with. This wasn't the case sometime back; and therefore, this is a
> i dont think our main weakness is money. Our main weakness is that we
> dont like to make waves, we want to be popular and friendly with
> everyone, so we dont protest - we compromise and get trampled over.
> The only way to face a bully is to stand up to him.
Not so. I think at-least 70%
> Anyone who doesn't compromise my goals for an event. It's like this:
> you give me this much money and you get this much. Yup, I will. If
> Rajindar da Dhaba wants to sponsor the next whatever, I say lets go
> for it =)
But won't it be weird if Santa's Dhaba sponsors the food fest at Banta's
Dha
> I'm sorry but at what time does a mail change from "informational" to
> spam? I appreciate all the work going into LA07 but come on, I don't
> know about others, but the number of posts is starting to annoy me a
> little.
Real Spam attacks you with 1,000 messages a day. "Informational"
mess
> opening a file has little to do with the extension -> browser. Its more
> to do with how the browser identifies its mime time and allocates an
> handler process. So look for issues that might have a role to play in
> wrong mime type reporting.
>
> also, when the fsck did microsoft fork html ?
> > so what happens to all those who want to view with IE?
> One need to install some ogg theora player to see the in windows.
> You can use http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ to see them using the
> windows media player. (I haven't tested yet)
I've tested the KLite-Codec[1] pack with Windows media p
> not loading
Hmm, it is for me, I double checked the link.
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> staff and students and discussed foss. Some pics are here:
>
> http://shanta.linuxops.net/~raju/cgi-bin/photo/index.cgi?
> mode=view&album=/Jaipur-20061103/Jaipur
Some more photos of the event are available at:
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