Re: [PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-22 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Thu Oct 21, 2004 at 06:41:09PM +0530 Mukund N Rathi wrote... > If everything in the world goes OSS and Free... what will we eat. with > WE I mean Software Developers? > ~..::Mukund::..~ Oh well, I spend quite a lot of time working on free software. And anyone who knows me can tell that I do pa

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-21 Thread Steve
Hi Mukund, On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 9:20 pm, Mukund N Rathi wrote: > But u cannot copy books as easily as u can do that for Windows. Oops i > mean softwares. Agreed, but in both cases you are commiting a crime unless the authors allows copying of their works. > And for Books we have library. wher

[PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-21 Thread Mukund N Rathi
t 21, 2004, at 9:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:52:28 +0530 From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Microsoft And OSS To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/pla

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-21 Thread Mr. Dhanvi Kapila
sorry for the double postin :((. gmail told me it cldnt send the earlier mail so I hit the send button once more.. Chers Dhanvi On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:29:17 -0500, Mr. Dhanvi Kapila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:52:28 +0530, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thurs

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-21 Thread Mr. Dhanvi Kapila
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:52:28 +0530, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 6:41 pm, Mukund N Rathi wrote: > > If everything in the world goes OSS and Free... what will we eat. with > > WE I mean Software Developers? > The same stuff that authors would eat if everything they w

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-21 Thread Mr. Dhanvi Kapila
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:52:28 +0530, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 6:41 pm, Mukund N Rathi wrote: > > If everything in the world goes OSS and Free... what will we eat. with > > WE I mean Software Developers? > The same stuff that authors would eat if everything they w

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-21 Thread Steve
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 6:41 pm, Mukund N Rathi wrote: > If everything in the world goes OSS and Free... what will we eat. with > WE I mean Software Developers? The same stuff that authors would eat if everything they wrote was available to anyone who could buy a book and read ...oh wait ...that'

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-21 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
On Thursday 21 October 2004 06:41 pm, Mukund N Rathi wrote: > If everything in the world goes OSS and Free... what will we eat. with > WE I mean Software Developers? I'm not that worried, to tell you the truth. Something about "free as in beer" and "free as in speech". Kaustubh -- 'Ooohh.. "Free

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-21 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 6:41 pm, Mukund N Rathi wrote: > If everything in the world goes OSS and Free... what will we eat. with > WE I mean Software Developers? May be.. Just may be but there is a subtle difference between free and Free. Finding it is left as an exercise to the reader.. Shridha

[PLUG] Microsoft And OSS

2004-10-21 Thread Mukund N Rathi
If everything in the world goes OSS and Free... what will we eat. with WE I mean Software Developers? ~..::Mukund::..~ On Oct 21, 2004, at 6:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell me, If microsoft releases the code of Windows 9x, then will windows 9x become a OSS? Yes, it will if microsoft decides