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Linux-Announce Digest #103
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Linux-Announce Digest #103, Volume #5 Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:13:02 EDT
Contents:
COMMENT: India's amazing statement on IP and international ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
COMMERCIAL: BalanceNG 1.297 available (BalanceNG Support)
[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 23rd April 2005 (Mark Suter)
NEW DISTRO: Underground desktop 012 (ivan)
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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:37:39 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: COMMENT: India's amazing statement on IP and international
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/15/indias_amazing_state.html
Friday, April 15, 2005
India's amazing statement on IP and international development
Earlier this week at the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),
there was a meeting to talk about how to reform the org to make it into a
humanitarian agency that promotes development, not monopoly rights for
publishing and pharmaceutical companies.
India's statement from the floor was so good it should be taught in
universities. Check it out:
The real "development" imperative is ensuring that the interest of Intellectual
Property owners is not secured at the expense of the users of IP, of consumers
at large, and of public policy in general. The proposal therefore seeks to
incorporate int international IP law and practice, what developing countries
have been demanding since TRIPS was forced on them in 1994.
The primary rationale for Intellectual Property protection is, first and
foremost, to promote societal development by encouraging technological
innovation. The legal monopoly granted to IP owners is an exceptional departure
from the general principle of competitive markets as the best guarantee for
securing the interest of society. The rationale for the exception is not that
extraction of monopoly profits by the innovator is, of and in itself, good for
society and so needs to be promoted. Rather, that properly controlled, such a
monopoly, by providing an incentive for innovation, might produce sufficient
benefits for society to compensate for the immediate loss to consumers as a
result of the existence of a monopoly market instead of a competitive market.
Monopoly rights, then, granted to IP holders is a special incentive that needs
to be carefully calibrated by each country, in the light of its own
circumstances, taking into account the overall costs and benefits of such
protection.
Link
posted by Cory Doctorow at 07:52:49 AM permalink | Other blogs commenting on
this post
[Thanks to Sandip B for pointing this out on the India-GII list earlier.]
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From: BalanceNG Support <balanceng-support@inlab.de>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: BalanceNG 1.297 available
Date: 15 Apr 2005 23:10:05 GMT
BalanceNG 1.297 available.
Changes to 1.292:
* improved bngagent, now contains testing functionality.
* portability of bngagent has been improved.
* binaries of bngagent for Solaris9/Sparc, Solaris10/Intel Mac OS-X are now supplied.
* new target commands "aoffset" and "ascale": load distribution can be highly optimized
by applying a linear function to the bngagent return code.
BalanceNG (Balance Next Generation) is a generic IP Load Balancing Solution for Linux.
BalanceNG is small, fast and (relatively) easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence,
different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Hash and Least Resource) and
a customizable UDP health check agent (available in source code).
BalanceNG supports VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) to set up High Available
configurations on multiple nodes.
BalanceNG is available at http://www.BalanceNG.net .
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Thomas Obermair
Inlab Software GmbH
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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:00:23 CST
From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 23rd April 2005
The Home Unix Machine Brisbane Users Group exists to get fellow
Unix users in contact with each other, to introduce people to
Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and to help users in
operating those systems. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Meetings tend to be informal. We socialize, discuss Unix and
computing, solve Unix problems for new and experienced users
alike and, these days, have regular talks.
Date: Saturday, 23rd April 2005 (every second Saturday)
Time: From 3pm with the network up 30 minutes after we are
granted entry. The network will be brought down after
midnight to allow time to clean up for a 1am exit.
Venue: Room S201, Hawken Engineering Building (no. 50)
The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
Car parking is currently unregulated on Saturdays. The
University is serviced by public transport with frequent
buses during University terms. For more information:
http://www.uq.edu.au/about/index.html?page=1070
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&z=2&id=25
Cost: Membership until our AGM in September is $20, but no one
has to join unless they are going to use club services
such as our network access during meetings.
Talks: Information on upcoming talks is announced separately.
For information on talks see the announcements by our
Talks Maintainer on the announce mailing list.
Food: The eating places (ranging from take away to a la Carte)
at 'The Ville' are usually open until about 10pm Saturday
night. There is also the Pizza Cafe on campus near the
Schonell Theater:
http://www.uqunion.uq.edu.au/schonell/pizzacaffe/
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&z=2&id=11
Drinks: Various soft drinks and snacks are available from the
three vending machines located immediately outside the
room. Remember to bring change!
For more information on club meetings and HUMBUG itself see our
web page at http://www.humbug.org.au/ or email me directly.
Humbug President
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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 02:39:29 CST
From: ivan <ivan.roquentin@gmail.com>
Subject: NEW DISTRO: Underground desktop 012
Underground Desktop (www.ludos.org) is a GNU/Linux distribution
targeted to the desktop user,
featuring a graphical installation (using Anaconda for Debian by
Progeny), and is based on Debian
'unstable'.
Its main features are:
* Ease of installation.
The graphical installer will guide you through the installation
in a simple and effective way.
* Debian based.
Underground Desktop is based on Debian unstable, so you can
install bleeding edge software
easily.
* Fast.
The desktop environment, KDE, is compiled with optimizations for
modern processor.
The linux kernel is optimized in order to improve desktop
performance.
* KDE powered.
KDE is the most advanced desktop environment in the linux world.
We include a recent release of KDE.
NOTE: Multimedia support not included, read this to be able to install
it.
BUG FIX: Remove the file '/etc/apt/preferences' after installing.
012 - Changes
Linux kernel 2.6.11.3 + desktop performance patches (ck2)
KDE 3.4 RC1
GUI support for network configuration
Wireless cards: support for cards based on Intersil 802.11b Prism2,
Prism2.5, and Prism3
chipsets
Wireless cards: support for Ndis drivers
Xorg 6.8.2
Firefox 1.0.2
Support for Synaptics touchpad
Printing support
Laptop support
Autologin as root after installation
New windows decorations
Prelink
You can download it at www.ludos.org
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