Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-20 Thread O_ओ . शो_O
Looks like all are yet not dead on PUG mailing list, because some are actually able to write and read the stuff that is being written... I thought PLUG was almost dead for last few months... ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-20 Thread Tirandaaj
Looks like all are yet not dead on PUG mailing list, because some are actually able to write and read the stuff that is being written... I thought PLUG was almost dead for last few months... ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-15 Thread Harish
Hello, On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Gaurav Pant gaurav...@gmail.com wrote: You want to promote use of Khadi and you are giving you speech wearing a Armani Suit -- Does not work out for me. What about people who use a mac to give a presentation using code executed on eucalyptus/azure/ec2

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-15 Thread Harish
Hello, On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Abhijit Bhopatkar b...@devslashzero.com wrote: Ever heard of Godwin's law? STFW Yes i have. The point being ? Also i thought top posting was frowned upon here. ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-15 Thread Thin Rhino
On 13 December 2014 at 08:54, Gaurav Pant gaurav...@gmail.com wrote: I will end the same by giving the simple example: You want to promote use of Khadi and you are giving you speech wearing a Armani Suit -- Does not work out for me. Dexter, classically flawed logic! I was to talk about

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Gaurav Pant gaurav...@gmail.com wrote: The most frustrating is when people come up with Apple Mac and give demo on that -- your message to the public is very simple-- your need costly high end (proprietary) devices to do this. The price point of Apple hardware

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-12 Thread Gaurav Pant
Hi It seems some people are never going to agree to the point to use a FOSS OS during these kind of seminars. Well whenever I see a speaker being reluctant or refusing to use a FOSS OS and chooses to use proprietary OS,the speaker gives a very clear message to the audience which is that still

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-12 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Gaurav Pant gaurav...@gmail.com wrote: I will end the same by giving the simple example: You want to promote use of Khadi and you are giving you speech wearing a Armani Suit -- Does not work out for me. Well said, I did not expect this thread to linger this

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-12 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Dec 13, 2014 11:23 AM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Gaurav Pant gaurav...@gmail.com wrote: I will end the same by giving the simple example: You want to promote use of Khadi and you are giving you speech wearing a Armani Suit -- Does not work out

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-11 Thread Abhijit Bhopatkar
The point is there are extremes, and one should find the balance, Banning paper and pen is as extreme as not banning bonded labour. And for sake of argument no bonded labour is not the same as tool. Gun is a tool but it hurts lives and so does bonded labour. Now you could argue the proprietary

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-11 Thread Abhijit Bhopatkar
Ever heard of Godwin's law? STFW On 7 December 2014 at 20:30, Harish hexinchr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, skip If anyone is ready to take up a bonded labour job? Job is just a tool for making your living. A tool is a tool is a tool. Got the point. touche'. The area i love, the

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-08 Thread Harish
Hello, skip If anyone is ready to take up a bonded labour job? Job is just a tool for making your living. A tool is a tool is a tool. Got the point. touche'. The area i love, the grey area where posturing meets ground realities. All thoughtful debate would most likely lead no where

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-07 Thread mukund joglekar
On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:48:51 +0530 Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote On Dec 6, 2014 2:22 AM, Abhijit Bhopatkar wrote: skip If anyone is ready to take up a bonded labour job? Job is just a tool for making your living. A tool is a tool is a tool. Got the point. touche'.

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Dec 6, 2014 2:22 AM, Abhijit Bhopatkar b...@devslashzero.com wrote: Little late reply but my two cents... Tools are tools are tools... computers and OS's are tools. Don't ban paper and pen because they are not strictly FOSS projects ... get my point? If anyone is ready to take up a

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-05 Thread Abhijit Bhopatkar
Little late reply but my two cents... Tools are tools are tools... computers and OS's are tools. Don't ban paper and pen because they are not strictly FOSS projects ... get my point? On 1 August 2014 at 14:27, ThinRhino thinrh...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was scheduled to give a talk at

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-09-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Thin Rhino wrote: Almost all people install various video codecs, which are also not open source. I just wanted to quickly highlight this common misunderstanding. Most if not all multimedia codecs in Linux are available under regular open source

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-09-01 Thread Tirandaaj
On Saturday 23 Aug 2014 12:01:35 PM aag wrote: On 11 August 2014 15:29, Pirate Praveen prav...@gmail.com wrote: Today, I prefer to work with a system that 'just works' I can concentrate on utilising Open Source Licensed tool chains and applications to do my work. It would

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-09-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:57 PM, ThinRhino thinrh...@gmail.com wrote: I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to use a Open Source License compliant operating system to give the talk. I have blogged about it in detail here -

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On Aug 12, 2014 1:51 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: The conference being a FOSS conference, everything needs to be under FOSS. It is as simple as that. Well, there could be exceptions if the requirement of the topic needs non-FOSS stuff. Please note that PLUG's stand

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-18 Thread ag@gmail
On Aug 1, 2014, at 11:27 AM, ThinRhino thinrh...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to use a Open Source License compliant operating system to give the talk. I have blogged about it in detail here -

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-18 Thread Pirate Praveen
2014-08-01 23:57 GMT+05:30 ThinRhino thinrh...@gmail.com: Folks, I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to use a Open Source License compliant operating system to give the talk. I have blogged about it in detail here -

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-18 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Long timer and lurker, here. On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:57 PM, ThinRhino thinrh...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to use a Open Source License compliant operating system to give the talk. I have blogged about it in detail here -

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-18 Thread Thin Rhino
On 12 August 2014 01:50, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:57 PM, ThinRhino thinrh...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to use a Open Source License compliant operating system to give

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-18 Thread Vikas Tara
On 01/08/14 19:27, ThinRhino wrote: Today, I prefer to work with a system that 'just works' Last night I booted my macbook pro into hamaralinux to do some work. Connected my android phone and was online. It 'just worked'. Then I rebooted into OSX Mavericks to write some music. Ran logic pro x

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-12 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:57:49PM +0530, ThinRhino wrote: I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to use a Open A chuckle is something that can cool the tempers down and you have sown a seed for that on above line. May FOSSsumMIT live that long along with you to

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-11 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:57 PM, ThinRhino thinrh...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to use a Open Source License compliant operating system to give the talk. I have blogged about it in detail here -

[PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-09 Thread ThinRhino
Folks, I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to use a Open Source License compliant operating system to give the talk. I have blogged about it in detail here - http://adityalaghate.in/no-to-symbolism.html The reason, I invoke this thread / discussion is that this

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-09 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:57:49PM +0530, ThinRhino wrote: If PLUG can make clear of it's stand it will be great. I am not an active member of PLUG, nor related in any way with organizers of the events you mentioned. So this is not an official PLUG response. Just like you I am a long timer at