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 the talk. I have > blogged about > > it in detail here -> http://adityalaghate.in/no-to-symbolism.html > > The conference being a FOSS conference, everything needs to be under > FOSS. It is as simple as that. The organisers have all the right to put in whatever restrictions they want. I agree. But, when these restrictions are informed to the presenter at the 11th hour, the organisers should not be adamant about enforcing them. It just conveys, that the organisers have no respect for the time & effort the presenter has put into preparing the talk. wrt FOSS, many of the laptops come with broadcom chips or other devices for which open source drivers are not available. Almost all people install various video codecs, which are also not open source. The popular browser, Chrome is not open source. The question is, where do you draw the line? at the hardware level, the kernel level or at the GUI / presentation level? What should be FOSS compliant? No hardware is FOSS compliant. In OS X, the kernel is open, device drivers are open. The presentation layer and part system is closed source. I hope in the future, whatever the restrictions, are informed to the speaker at the time of inviting them and/or before they are required to submit their proposals. Regards Aditya _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
