{"id":240,"date":"2008-12-11T22:16:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-12-13T00:47:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T19:17:37","slug":"fsfsin-and-proprietary-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"fsfs.in and Proprietary software."},"content":{"rendered":"

I am just back from fsfs.in<\/a>. The event had several renowned participants and and exhibition on free software.\u00a0 I was responsible for setting up the stall of IHRD<\/a>. We show cased LTSP<\/a> and\u00a0 remastering Ubuntu.\u00a0 I was busy with the stall yesterday and day before yesterday and could not attend any sessions.
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\nAt our stall with a Thin Client on the table.<\/p>\n

Today morning, I went to the convention centre at Mascot hotel. I was planning to attend a few technical sessions. I was shocked to find\u00a0 many speakers running Windows Vista and power point presentations.\u00a0 I thought the guys running the show were hard core GNU fanatics. ( Ricard Stallman was present on the opening day of the conference.).<\/p>\n

I was listened to two talks , one on\u00a0 GRAILS and the other on Javafx. The guy who spoke on grails used GNU\/Linux and openoffice impress. The\u00a0 talk on Javafx<\/a> was simply crap. The speaker seemed\u00a0 to know very little of Java.<\/p>\n

I asked him whether the Javafx is available on any free platforms and whether it is\u00a0 free software.\u00a0 He said\u00a0 some bla bla and quickly wound up. Any way,\u00a0 took some photgraphs of his presentation. I think he was trying to carefully hide windows and powerpoint.
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\nTeach yourself \u00a0 free software \u00a0 with\u00a0 Windows XP\u00a0 in 21 days<\/p>\n

Back in the exibition pavallion, I scanned around for\u00a0 proprietary\u00a0 stuff. I could spot them on a couple of stalls.
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\nHands on Free Software with Windows VISTA. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Finally, the Linux user group was running a windows\u00a0 theme on\u00a0 one of their Laptops \ud83d\ude00
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Learning\u00a0 windows (theme) on Linux<\/p>\n

You cannot get rid of <\/span> proprietary software even in a conference on freedom and free software \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

PS: I use windows if it is absolutely needed.<\/p>\n

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I am just back from fsfs.in. The event had several renowned participants and and exhibition on free software.\u00a0 I was responsible for setting up the stall of IHRD. We show cased LTSP and\u00a0 remastering Ubuntu.\u00a0 I was busy with the stall yesterday and day before yesterday and could not attend any sessions. At our stall… Continue reading fsfs.in and Proprietary software.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,8,1],"tags":[35,36,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}