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Linux-Announce Digest #221
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Linux-Announce Digest #221, Volume #4 Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:13:07 EST
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[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings ("Paul M. Foster")
NEWS: Coding is like cooking, share your software, says Stallman (Frederick Noronha)
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:29:39 CST
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
From: "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
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BRANDON **************************************************
7 November 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#Brandon for directions.
TAMPA ****************************************************
13 November 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
PricewaterhouseCoopers -- Room 684
3109 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Blvd
Lakepointe I Building
Tampa, FL 33607
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#tampa for directions.
SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
20 November 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Wednesday of each month)
Baker Electronics
8323 Lindbergh Court
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.bish.net/directions/
DUNEDIN **************************************************
23 November 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin for directions.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
5 December 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
New Port Richey Public Library
(second level meeting rooms)
5939 Main St.
New Port Richey, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#npr for directions.
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ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentation: As indicated.
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 00:36:08 CST
From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: Coding is like cooking, share your software, says Stallman
CODING IS LIKE COOKING, SHARE YOUR SOFTWARE, SAYS STALLMAN
PANAJI, Nov 6: "Do you cook?" That's an odd question to come up from one of
the world's code-genius. But the point Richard M Stallman is making is that
software is like a recipe, and refusing to share with your friend who needs
it badly is a real crime.
For two-and-half hours, the one-time Massachussets Institute of Technology
guru of software shared ideas with industrialists and ministers on what Free
Software implies, and why this concept has more to do with freedom and not
the free-price that many take it for.
"There are a lot of analogies between proprietorial software and
colonialism. But instead of one country colonising another, here's a
corporation colonising your computers," he charged.
Free software could encourage local businessmen rather than paying "huge
sums to a few rich (global) businesses" for their products, code guru Dr
Richard M Stallman said.
"Any government in India that wants to make its people prosper should invest
on something that shifts people over to (sustainable and beneficial) Free
Software solutions," said Dr Stallman, speaking during a dinner meet hosted
in his honour by the Goa Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar suggested that higher-secondary students
getting state-subsidised computers under a 'cyberage' scheme could possibly
be given a GNU/Linux-based operating system (OS), rather than a
proprietorial OS.
Parrikar mentioned the cost factor of proprietorial OSs, but Stallman's
emphasis was primarily on the "freedom" that free software gives both its
developers and users thus, he argued, moving towards a better society.
"Are we in a position to have a trained manpower to shift (over to another
OS)," the chief minister commented, underlining that this was only 'loud
thinking' on the issue. But he said this issue was likely to be discussed
shortly with experts from Mumbai.
"I'll keep everything you said in mind," chief minister Parrikar told the
Boston-based coder, who chose to visit Goa during his three-destination tour
of India. From Goa, he heads to New Delhi on Thursday before leaving on
November 11.
RMS -- as he is popularly known -- cautioned India to avoid the "minefield"
of introducing patents in the software world. "Software patients is a very
critical issue, and I understand the Indian parliament is considering
whether to do so," Stallman (49) said.
Stallman, among other things, wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor
there in 1975, for which, in 1991, he received the Grace Hooper Award from
the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also the recipient of a
MacArthur Foundation genius grant. (ENDS)
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'Piracy': What's that?
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PANJIM: Asked what he thought of software 'piracy', Stallman said that term
was itself misleading and loaded in the first place. "I think attacking a
ship in high seas is very wrong. That's piracy," he said.
He strongly objected to using loaded labels like 'piracy' for the act of
sharing software solutions with friends.
On the software front, he said people using 'non-free' (proprietorial
software that disallowed copying) faced a moral dilemma when a friend asked
for a copy. Either they could violate the law, or deny a friend a
badly-needed copy.
"The lesser evil is to share with your friend. Better still, reject
proprietorial software altogether," he contended. (ENDS)
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