Celebrating Freedom Hiran Venugopalan's hiran.movingrepublic.org

I have nothing new to teach the world, ahimsa and truth are as old as hills. Mahatma Gandhi hiran.movingrepublic.org

I have nothing new to teach the world, freedom and sharing of knowledge are as old as hills. Hiran Venugopalan hiran.movingrepublic.org

Free software hiran.movingrepublic.org

Free software hiran.movingrepublic.org

Free software hiran.movingrepublic.org

Free software hiran.movingrepublic.org

What does the Free software can give you? hiran.movingrepublic.org

Freedom! hiran.movingrepublic.org

Freedom! Free as in freedom hiran.movingrepublic.org

Freedom to use a software completely. hiran.movingrepublic.org

Freedom to study how a software works. hiran.movingrepublic.org

Freedom to modify software as you wish. hiran.movingrepublic.org

software with or without modification. Freedom to distribute software with or without modification. hiran.movingrepublic.org

What is the need for these freedoms ? hiran.movingrepublic.org

a question : who owns your computer ? hiran.movingrepublic.org

think... hiran.movingrepublic.org

...of a cycle hiran.movingrepublic.org

will you buy a cycle if you are not its owner even you paid for that? hiran.movingrepublic.org

will you allow them to take back the cycle when they wish? hiran.movingrepublic.org

will you allow the manufactures condition that the cycle should be used only by you? hiran.movingrepublic.org

will you allow the condition that it should be repaired only from the specified workshop? hiran.movingrepublic.org

if your answer is NO.... hiran.movingrepublic.org

...then why on softwares? hiran.movingrepublic.org

hope you got the answer! hiran.movingrepublic.org

GNU GNU is Not Unix! gnu.org hiran.movingrepublic.org

Free Software Foundation www.fsf.org hiran.movingrepublic.org

Free Software Foundation of India www.gnu.org.in FSF Friends http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends hiran.movingrepublic.org

GNU General Public License [GNU GPL] hiran.movingrepublic.org

Linux hiran.movingrepublic.org

its a kernel GNU is the system ! Linux its a kernel GNU is the system ! hiran.movingrepublic.org

Why we should call it GNU/Linux ? hiran.movingrepublic.org

GNU/Linux distributions [distros] hiran.movingrepublic.org

Is GNU/Linux the only free operating system ? hiran.movingrepublic.org

[The GNU system with HURD kernel] No. There is GNU/HURD [The GNU system with HURD kernel] but its not yet stable... hiran.movingrepublic.org

Free BSD GNU/BSD Open Solaris hiran.movingrepublic.org

these all are global teams; is there any one local to help us? hiran.movingrepublic.org

Yes! hiran.movingrepublic.org

Palakkad Libre software Users Society http://plus.sarovar.org Adding freedom to common minds.... http://plus.sarovar.org hiran.movingrepublic.org

Free Software Users Group Thrissur www.fsugtsr.org hiran.movingrepublic.org

FOSS Community, India fci.wikia.com hiran.movingrepublic.org

SPACE www.space-kerala.org hiran.movingrepublic.org

Free Me freeme.in hiran.movingrepublic.org

Swathandra Malayalam Computing smc.nongnu.org smc-discuss@googlegroups.com hiran.movingrepublic.org

GNU Labs labs.gnu.org.in hiran.movingrepublic.org

there are more such communities better do a search ! hiran.movingrepublic.org

Then,what can you do for the free software movement?? hiran.movingrepublic.org

|Stop using non-free softwares |Join and start contributing to free software projects |Start using free softwares |Stop using non-free softwares |Make a free software group inside your campus |Make a GNU Labs inside your campus. hiran.movingrepublic.org

Questions; comments ? hiran.movingrepublic.org

Now its the time to wake up! Thanks Now its the time to wake up! hiran.movingrepublic.org

Hiran Venugopalan hiran@movingrepublic.org +919846951870

Presentation published under GNU GPL Version 2 or later. Presentation created using Open Office. (C) 2007 Hiran Venugopalan, hiran@movingrepubic.org Presentation published under GNU GPL Version 2 or later. The font used in the presentation is Nimbus Roman No 9 L. Image on background template is created using Inkscape. 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. hiran.movingrepublic.org