Re: [LIG] Re: [ilugd]: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-09 Thread Tarun Dua
> Isn't that self-evident? If you have (say) an 8% excise on bundled > software, then the person who downloads Linux and OpenOffice and > bundles them into a computer doesn't pay any excise. After all, the > tax/excise would be on the price of the software, and if the price is > 0, so is the corr

Re: [ilugd]: openbrick Demo on Saturday

2003-03-09 Thread Satendra
sry i was not there :-( went to make an unavoidable visit to some other place . Can anyone brief me abt the demo and details abt the product Satendra - Original Message - From: "tripta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "linuxdelhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:53 PM Subje

[ilugd]: unbundling OEMbundles

2003-03-09 Thread LinuxLingam
On Saturday 08 March 2003 11:32 am, you wrote: > I've been trying to find if there is a law preventing forcing > buyers to buy bundled items (as Window$ with a PC). I guess, there is > one thats why all the whitegoods/FMCG bundled offers state that the > item is also available witho

Re: [ilugd]: where can I get a Linux logo T-shirt (in India please)?

2003-03-09 Thread LinuxLingam
checked out the humorix site, found this one rather interesting line: "My computer, my documents, my briefcase, my ASS! " :-) the bitstream vera sans not found on the site you mentioned. by the way, is garamond free? where/how did you find it? btw, i feel the tee-shirt should have a distinctiv

[ilugd]: Sco Vs Linux

2003-03-09 Thread shah tushar
Hi, Well SCO is arming itself to fire salvo on Linux . It's sad especially since SCO is a member of the UnitedLinux forum Catch complete story here http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/3/7/122413/3342 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center

Re: [ilugd]: openbrick Demo on Saturday

2003-03-09 Thread Amit Goel
http://www.openbrick.org -- amit - Original Message - From: Satendra To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd]: openbrick Demo on Saturday sry i was not there :-( went to make an unavoidable visit to some other place . Can anyone brief me abt the

Re: [ilugd]: Queries reg GNU/Linux

2003-03-09 Thread supreet
GNU tools are inpired by design paradigm, unix. Unix was AT&T system. So we should say the garden was sown by people at AT&T. O but wait, There was something called Multics which was the OS which never got finished which inspired unix platform paradigm . Bla bla . But Von Neumann gave the conce

Re: [LONG] [LIG] Re: [ilugd]: [draft] open letter to indian financeminister

2003-03-09 Thread supreet
It may not please many, but I could not agree more to what tarun has written. On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 18:57, Tarun Dua wrote: > > first of all, an excellent response from tarun dua on the draft. > --Thanks LL > > > IMHO FLOSS is beyond any mess that any bureaucrat, government, or > > corporate ca

[ilugd]: Ok: lets get them made :::: where can I get a Linux logo T-shirt (in India please)?

2003-03-09 Thread Arjun
2 : one small one medium. round neck. without pockets. On second thought, I'd like some more to present to my friends in Microsoft ;-) Also, here is a simple design. Not guaranteed to be creative, but my idea was to convey what Linux can do and its the OS for India. Top is for front and b

[ilugd]: Guidelines

2003-03-09 Thread Raj Mathur
Just to remind you folks about some of the basic rules of netiquette when posting on mailing lists: - Do not post a one-line response to a 100-line message and then include the message in it's entirety. Judicious snippage makes life so much easier for everyone else on the list. - Do not post att

[ilugd]: (fwd) CopyRight, CopyLeft, CopyConsent

2003-03-09 Thread Raj Mathur
[Forwarding without prejudice -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Parth J Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Centre for Civil Society From: "Parth J Shah" <[EMAIL PR

[ilugd]: Help on GRUB

2003-03-09 Thread murali manohara
Hi all, I installed rehat 7.3 on my machine and when i was to reboot i got the message Error 28 : selected item cannot fit into memory. i am getting this error on grub for the first time. please help. to avoid the error i thought of installing the old LILO. but there also i got the error message as

RE: [ilugd]: Queries reg GNU/Linux

2003-03-09 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Well, you should go on to Babbage and Lovelace Ada ... >-Original Message- >From: supreet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 6:32 AM >To: multiple recipients of >Subject: Re: [ilugd]: Queries reg GNU/Linux > > >GNU tools are inpired by design paradigm, unix. Unix was A