Celebrating Freedom Hiran Venugopalan's hiran.movingrepublic.org
Celebrating FreedomHiran Venugopalan's
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I have nothing new to teach the world, ahimsa and truth are as old as hills.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I have nothing new to teach the world,
freedom and sharing of knowledge are as old as hills.
Hiran Venugopalan
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Free software
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Free software
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Free software
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Free software
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Free softwareWhat does the
can give you?
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Freedom!
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Freedom!Free as in freedom
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Freedom to use
a software completely.
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Freedom to study
how a software works.
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Freedom to modify
software as you wish.
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Freedom to distribute
software with or without modification.
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What is the need for these
freedoms ?
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a question :
who owns your computer ?
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think...
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...of a cycle
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will you buy a cycle if you are not
its owner even you paid for that?
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will you allow them to take back the cycle when they wish?
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will you allow the manufactures
condition that the cycle should be
used only by you?
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will you allow the condition that it
should be repaired only from the
specified workshop?
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if your answer is
NO....
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...then why on softwares?
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hope you got the
answer!
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GNUGNU is Not Unix!
gnu.org
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Free Software Foundation
www.fsf.org
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Free Software Foundation of Indiawww.gnu.org.in
FSF Friendshttp://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsffriends
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GNU General Public License [GNU GPL]
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Linux
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Linuxits a kernel GNU is the system !
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Why we should call it
GNU/Linux ?
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GNU/Linux distributions[distros]
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Is GNU/Linux the only free operating system ?
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No.
There is GNU/HURD[The GNU system with HURD kernel]
but its not yet stable...
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Free BSDGNU/BSD
Open Solaris
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these all are global teams;
is there any one local to help us?
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Yes!
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Palakkad Libre software Users SocietyAdding freedom to common minds....
http://plus.sarovar.org
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Free Software Users Group Thrissurwww.fsugtsr.org
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FOSS Community, Indiafci.wikia.com
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SPACEwww.spacekerala.org
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Free Mefreeme.in
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GNU Labslabs.gnu.org.in
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there are more such communities
better do a search !
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Then,what can you do for the free software movement??
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|Join and start contributing to free software projects
|Start using free softwares|Stop using nonfree softwares|Make a free software group inside your campus
|Make a GNU Labs inside your campus.
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Questions; comments ?
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ThanksNow its the time to wake up!
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Presentation created using Open Office. (C) 2007 Hiran Venugopalan, [email protected]
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Thanks to Hitha, Anivar, Praveen, Baiju M, Riyas Uzman, Pramode C E, Anitha P, Sujith H, Sajeev Kumar, C K Raju, Manu Anand S & members of VAST GNU Labs
who helped me to make this slide.