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Linux-Announce Digest #372, Volume #4 Fri, 4 Apr 2003 03:13:02 EST
Contents:
GUIFFY 5.0 compare/merge released ("Bill Ritcher")
Publisher's Books so Good They Get Hacked (John Mark Walker)
NEWS: India neutral on Linux-MSN issue: Shourie ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
NEWS: GNU/Linux Symposium in Ottawa ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
INDIA: GNUBeLUG... another report from Belgaum ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: "Bill Ritcher" <Bill_Ritcher@Guiffy.com>
Subject: GUIFFY 5.0 compare/merge released
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:25:49 CST
Guiffy is the advanced cross-platform compare/merge. Features 2-way and
3-way smart, "SureMerge", interfaces. Compare and Merge interfaces support
Editing and Undo. Guiffy's compare views include Inline diff highlighting.
Comes with builtin UNICODE and MBCS support. And, a command line interface
for CM/SCM integrations -- Works with CVS, Perforce, SOS, Starbase and many
others. Guiffy also includes integrated Folder/FileTree Compare and
Synchronization. Plus, a complete API package is included.
Available for all Java-enabled platforms including: Windows, MacOS, Linux,
Unix, and OpenVMS, OS/2.
Guiffy 5.0 includes:
>> QUICK file compare windows from folder compare view
>> New Multi-file open panel
>> Wrapping ToolBar
>> Find Enhancements
>> OpenVMS support
Homepage: http://www.guiffy.com
License: 21-day evaluation. Single User license is $75. Multi-user
licenses "3-for-2": 3-user licenses are $150.
Thank you for your support,
Bill_Ritcher@Guiffy.com
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From: John Mark Walker <johnmark@nostarch.com>
Subject: Publisher's Books so Good They Get Hacked
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:20:20 CST
Hi,
I am sending this because I thought No Starch Press' story of copyright
infringement would be of interest to you. Recently, we discovered that two of
our books have been illegally circulated on the Internet. Because this was
the result of anti-copying circumvention by the perpetrator, we could have
pursued legal action under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. However, we
have chosen not to, and we outline our reasons why in the story immediately
following this message.
Please contact me with any further questions.
Thanks,
John Mark Walker
Marketing Manager
No Starch Press
415-863-9900
PUBLISHER'S BOOKS SO GOOD THEY GET HACKED
No Starch Press Chooses not to Prosecute Under the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA)
San Francisco, April 3, 2003 -- Apparently, No Starch Press' books are so good
that others see fit to illegally distribute them. The independent computer
book publisher announced today that two of its books, "Absolute BSD" (ISBN
1886411743, July 2002, $39.95) and "Crackproof Your Software" (ISBN
1886411794, November 2002, $34.95) were illegally circulated by a cracker,
mostly likely in eastern Europe. The cracker, who goes by the moniker "EEN",
probably downloaded them piecemeal from an online reference site and
converted them into PDF format with no copy restrictions. He then placed them
on various bulletin boards on the Internet. A spokesperson for the online
reference site (which hosts works from many other major publishers) claimed
that this was the first time anything of this sort had happened.
Bill Pollock, President of No Starch Press, had this to say: "Clearly, this
act violates copyright and is patently illegal. It's also very difficult to
prosecute, especially since there is no smoking gun. While some might say
that we should pursue both the online reference site and the maker of the
tools likely used for the conversion, I disagree. The legal issue is with the
copyright violator, not with the maker of the file conversion software."
Pollock added that there may even be a welcome side-benefit: "I am in no way
encouraging people to post illegal copies of books. But the funny thing is
that having that illegal copy floating around may actually serve to increase
print sales of the books by making them visible to a wider audience." Pollock
noted, however, that in this case, all references to No Starch Press were
removed, thus curbing the amount of extra notoriety to be gained.
No Starch Press is not opposed to releasing books for free online. In fact,
the company has successfully published three books under open licenses in the
past. "Readers can view or download the complete editions of No Starch Press'
'Programming Linux Games', 'Linux in the Workplace', and 'The Linux Cookbook'
online," says Pollock. Thus far, the online availability of these books does
not appear to have hurt print book sales, despite popular fears to the
contrary. However, as Pollock added, "We like to leave the decision to
publish free versions of books up to our authors. In this case, however, the
wishes of the books' authors were not respected, and that is of great concern
to us."
While the case could be prosecuted under the DMCA (Digital Millennium
Copyright Act), Pollock will not pursue such action. "The act of copyright
infringement is illegal, but file conversion tools have legitimate uses and
should not be criminalized. We support the Digital Choice and Freedom Act,
which would reform the DMCA to recognize the rights of readers."
The irony of one of the cracked books being "Crackproof Your Software" is not
lost on Pollock, either, though that book is not about securing online books.
"One of our bestselling titles is 'Steal This Computer Book'; perhaps someone
took the title a little too seriously, though they've yet to hack that one."
###Contact: John Mark Walker johnmark@nostarch.com 415-863-9900
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: India neutral on Linux-MSN issue: Shourie
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:11:18 CST
India neutral on Linux-MSN issue: Shourie
By Imran Qureshi, Indo-Asian News Service
Bangalore, Apr 1 (IANS) India is neutral in the open source vs. proprietary
software debate and will adopt a policy that will serve the country better,
Minister for IT Arun Shourie said Tuesday.
Making it clear that the government would not take a stand on supporting
either the Linux or Microsoft platforms, he said no circular had been issued
by his ministry to support either.
Shourie's statement is the first categorical one from the government, which
has been besieged by supporters of open source and proprietary software to
promote their platforms.
"I am not prepared to give a carte blanche. In India there is too much of
'either ... or'. There should be 'also' too", Shourie told reporters here.
He was speaking on the sidelines of a function to dedicate Param Padma, a
one teraflop super computing cluster that is the largest in the Asia-Pacific
region outside Japan.
Decisions on the MSN-Linux issues would be taken on a "case by case basis.
For instance, CDAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) will
decide what will serve the country better," Shourie maintained.
The open source platform provides the code for developers to modify for
their applications. This code is not available in proprietary software. The
campaign has been termed freedom against dependency.
The debate on the issue got a fillip when Microsoft head Bill Gates visited
India last year to push for proprietary software in the wake of the growing
inroads by Linux among India's 500,000-strong developer community.
Gates as well as supporters of open source like IBM and Sun Microsystems
have committed millions of dollars to promote their platforms.
"If there is a security product that we need and supposing it is required
immediately and someone else has it, are we going to say we will develop it
ourselves?" Shourie asked.
Speaking after inaugurating the C-DAC facility, Shourie said "sensitive
organizations should use indigenous software and hardware because bugs can
develop several years later".
--Indo-Asian News Service
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: GNU/Linux Symposium in Ottawa
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:18:51 CST
URL : http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/
2002 Linux Symposium
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July 23rd-26th, 2003, Ottawa Canada.
The Linux Symposium is a hard core technology event targetting
software developers working on the Linux kernel & major OS
infrastructure and research projects.
Now in the fifth year the Symposium brings together the key developers
in the Linux community. With attendees coming from over 30 different
countries the Symposium is probably the single most comprehensive
collection of Linux Kernel experts.
Recent News
March 21st, 2003
Spring is here, and all the Paper abstracts are now in so everyone
presenting papers is listed [11]on the speakers list. There are a
total of 51 papers being presented at the Symposium this year. We
expect to have the majority of Bird of a Feather Sessions and
Tutorials also listed by the end of March.
February 21st, 2003
The paper review committee has been able to process about 75% of the
proposals submitted so far. We hope to have the remaining 25% done
shortly. The next step will be to accept BOFS (Bird of a Feather
Session) proposals and to complete the schedule for this year. Make
sure that you are on the [12]Announcement Mailing List so that you do
not miss any important deadlines.
January 28th, 2003
You may [13]register as a symposium attendee. We strongly encourage
you to register as soon as possible as we do sell out.
We have made a number of changes to the registration system. Please
report any problems to ajh@linuxsymposium.org as soon as you
experience them.
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5. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/speakers.php?type=Tutorials
6. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/sponsors.php
7. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/venue.php
8. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/faq.php
9. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/index.php
10. mailto:registration@linuxsymposium.org
11. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/speakers.php?type=talk
12. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/mailman/listinfo/ols-announce
13. https://secure.linuxsymposium.org/
14. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/cfp.php
15. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/travel.php
16. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/pictures.php
17. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/audio.php
18. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/proceedings.php
19. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003
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22. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2000
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: INDIA: GNUBeLUG... another report from Belgaum
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 01:26:39 CST
========== Forwarded message ==========
URL : http://www.geocities.com/tonysingh4u/gnubelug.txt
Minutes of GNU Be LUG Meet In an engineering college in Belgaum,
called GIT, there are a few students who felt strongly about Free
Software and its ideology. They wanted to eductae people around them
and wanted to spread the message as we at Mumbai do. They took an
obvious step, formed a formal LUG(ilug-belgaum@yahoogroups.com) about
6 months ago, and started introducing people to a new option. But they
wanted to hold a big event, and event where they could have a larger
number of people know of the option. So, they (Ashutosh Naik, Rohan,
Rahul, Sanket Patil just to name a few) started to concieve this event
which i'll describe in this article. Saturday, March 29th 2003, I and
Bhaskar Ghosh another member of the Mumbai LUG reached the Belgaum bus
station and called up the volunteers to pick us up. In no time they
were there and I could notice the similar air of friendlyness that i'v
always noticed with the Mumbai Luggerz. We quickly got fresh in a
hotel wher we were put up and reached the college. The first look at
the college made our jaws drop. We could notice lovely posters and
banners al over the place with our own tux and GNU on them. Once in
the lecture hall, we were introduced to all the the luggers of belgaum
and we quickly looked over the arrangements that were loveley. The
crowd started coming in and in no time we had main hall jampacked with
around 150 minds, but this is not it. There was another hall arranged
for the event and all the proceedings in the main hall were being
streamed thru a web cam and displayed in the second hall. The first
talk for the day was by Ashutosh Naik ofGIT who spoke about THE
philosophy. He had er good presentation compiled which gave the taste
of everything RMS talks about in his talks. So what if we didnt have
RMS for the event, atleast we had a local RMS to take his place:).
During the talk i was doing some face reading and noticed that the
audience was a highly participating one and wanted to participate
more. After Ashotosh's talk we had a very fruitful question answer
session with people asking a lot about the differences of Free
software and the Open Source Movements. We went on with some trivia
for the audience and giving away of Knoppix CDs. I tried to make that
very interactive from then on, and took things trevor ishtyle. Next
speaker was Bhaskar Ghosh from DYPCOET kolhapur who did the
installation of RH8 with specific stress on points like partitioning.
He, actually went there as audience and wanted to use this as an
opportunity to meet the luggers, but ended up speaking because due to
some reasons Mr Dinesh Shah could'nt make it. After a quick snack
break. we then had Rahul Iyer of GIT, belgaum talk about Kernel
Modules. This talk was very informative and I must say that the LUG at
belgaum is lucky to have a true kernel hacker with them right from its
inception. Some more trivia and a few more knoppix CDs followed and
then it was my turn. I was talking about using GNU/Linux for day to
day use.
As a part of that I also demoed knoppix and IndLinux. I could
here a similar sigh from the audience that i heard at GNUnify, Pune,
when they saw Gedit with hindi menus. I also got it across that the
students sitting out there could actually contribute to this project.
That was the end of the first days proceedings and we were again taken
for a few snacks. Late in the evening a mini bus arrived at the hotel.
We had a big contingent coming down from Goa for the event. I could
see familiar faces like Fredrick Noronha, Dr. Anil Seth, Arvind Yadav
etc and there were a few people i didnt know but got to know soon like
Dr Gurunandan Bhat, Mr Dsouza, Amitay, Allwyn Noronha(no he is not
FN's brother). Over dinner there was a lot of interaction and people
were eating less and talking more. It was almost 11:30 by we finished
dinner and a few people wanted to sleep, but a few people thought
otherwise. FN made it a point to have Arvind Yadav and me otherwise we
would have chatted all night and been drowsy the next day. Soon Trevor
Warren and Warren Noronha from Bombay joiined the bandwangon(yes!
another noronha.
There was jokes of establising a noronha lug out
there. lol) The next day was opened by FN who spoke about the status
of the movement in India. I remember him stating that how we take the
movement forward would make or break the movement, this made me feel
more responsible. Next to speak was Dr. Anil Seth, an educationist as
of now. He had compiled a very good analysis on "why GNU/Linux?". a
new thing i noticed in his talk was that after he made the advantage
clear he also touched an important point. he stated "What if I am
wrong? you cant be trusting anyone like that. You still dont have
anything to lose". The stage was then taken by the Trevor Warren who
was speaking about Embedded Linux. Well we all know that Trevor gets
to the stage, he is always amidst the audience. He and Warren Noronha
demoed a few interesting Embedded equipment including a PDA and a box
with a 512MB flas, a 486 processor and a wireless NIC that they had
deployed on top of buses for the Karnatak Govt. We had the very
knowledgable Dr. Bhat from Synapse Goa speak about SOAP and web
services just before lunch. I have noticed this common thing when
IITians talk, they have a fair amount of humour in their talks and
thus make their highly technical talks the most engrossong ones.I have
to add over here that Dr Bhat is the person who wrote the tex module
of emacs and still he is the most humble man i have ever met. The last
talk of the day was by Arvind Yadav from Goa who covered a lot of
technical topics including .NET's counterpart in Free Software and a
little more on the partitioning when dual boot systems are to be done
up. His was a more of a question answer session and I was amazed atthe
amount of questions that were pouring on. The last leg was a panel
discussion where all the speaker were on the stage and one mic was
always in the audience. Various topics were discussed including
technical and topics related to ideaology and how could a i miss
"making a living from free software". Bhaskar and I, the die hard fans
of RMS spoke a lot about him and how the GNU project went about during
this session.
One more thing worth mentioning is that we had almost
200 copies of LFY march given away in the two days, which were
sponsored by Mr. Rahul Chopra,editor LFY and we are very thankful to
him for that. That apart we also had 87 copies of the knoppix CDs
either sold or given away as prizes for trivia. 2 days of brain
storming, almost 10 speakers, 200 magazines going out and almost 75
CDs of knoppix sold and an amazing amount of interaction with the
audience of almost 250. How would one sum this all up? The only
adjective that come to my mind is FRUITFUL, very very FRUITFUL.
^^^^^ LINKS ilug-belgaum at yahoogroups.com ilug-goa at yahoogroups.com
fred at bytesforall.org(FN) guru at plusthought.org (Dr Gurunandan
Bhat) GNUrpreet singh gnurpreet@softhome.net
-------------------------------------------- Copyleft 2003 gurpreet.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.1 or
later. -------------------------------------------
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