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Reduced hosted server prices for LUGs
by MJ Ray 23 Feb '02

23 Feb '02

------- Forwarded Message Reply-To: "Rob Davy, Hub Web Services" <rob.davy(a)hubwebservices.com> Subject: Offer Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:05:52 -0000 Dear LUG Owner, We would like to offer a few offers to all your LUG members. These are not any buy 10 get one free, or order now and get a free pin-badge, just permanent price reductions on web services. Quite a few Linux users have found the Hosted Servers quite a useful product. All the offers are at http://www.hubwebservices.com/lug If you would be so kind as to forward this to your mailing lists, it would be much appreciated, if you feel it appropriate of course. Thanks in advance Rob Davy rob.davy(a)hubwebservices.com 07751 528982 ================ Hub Web Services http://www.hubwebservices.com sales(a)hubwebservices.com 0870 751 2205 ------- End of Forwarded Message -- MJR

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ALUG 2002.2
by markj＠cloaked.freeserve.co.uk 23 Feb '02

23 Feb '02

------- Forwarded Message From: John Billings <john(a)paston.co.uk> Reply-To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] Meeting in Norwich, UEA, Sunday 24th Feb Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:04:29 +0000 Hi all, The next meeting will be taking place in Common Room A, Nelson Court at the University of East Anglia on Sunday between 2pm and 5pm. Directions to the uea are available from www.uea.ac.uk, and there are mapboards on the campus near the main car park that should get you to the common room easily enough. Post meeting drinks will happen in the Union bar, 5pm - 6pm, altho this is not a hard limit, and may well go on longer.. Rumour is that some beer in the Union is current £1 a pint... not that that should effect whether you turn up or not... ;-) Label your kit, if you're bringing it along, and post here to let us know what to look forward too... I will almost certainally be there, hangover from saturday permitting, and will be bringing my Pico Laptop, running debian unstable, and possibly my other Linux machine, if i've failed to get adsl going on it by then. It'll be my first meeting, and hey, this is my first meeting announcment... firsts all around.. Hope to see you there... J. PS.. please post this to other relevent places, if you can think of any. ------- End of Forwarded Message

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by Jeanluc128GP＠aol.com 19 Feb '02

19 Feb '02

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MobiliX response online
by MJ Ray 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

------- Forwarded Message Reply-To: Werner Heuser <wehe(a)mobilix.org> To: list-obelix-en(a)snafu.de Subject: Obelix versus MobiliX: Legal Response Online Now Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:25:38 -0100 In the conflict between Obelix and MobiliX, the legal response of the lawyers Jaschinski Biere Brexl (JBB) is online now. In November 2001 Werner Heuser, owner of the Opens Source project MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Computers (http://mobilix.org) was charged by "Les Editions Albert Rene", which is owner of the trademark "Obelix". The charge aimes on a deletion of the trademark "MobiliX" and a compensation fee. Also every commercial use of the name "MobiliX" will be forbidden. Every offense can be charged with up to 250.000 Euro or as a substitute with six months prison. Werner Heuser has taken the lawyers Jaschinski Biere Brexl (JBB) (http://www.jbb-berlin.de) to represent him in court. His lawyers had to work out the legal response until January 21st 2002. The legal response (PDF, 22 pages in German) is online (http://mobilix.org/mobilix_asterix.html) now. The document describes the origin of the names Obelix (from "obelisk") and MobiliX (from "mobil" and "UniX"). Many wellknown names are used to show how widespread the suffix "ix" is in the IT business, e.g. often UniX derivates are named by this scheme. This is followed by an analysis of the pronounciation and spelling of the words Obelix and MobiliX, and whether they can be mistaken from members of the IT business or not. As a conclusion the charge is considered void. Since the suffix "ix" is widespread in the IT community, it seems possible that even more projects will be charged. This case is very important for the Free Software community, too. Therefore the lawyers Jaschinski Biere Brexl (JBB) have agreed to make the legal response public. The MobiliX (http://mobilix.org) site is dedicated to Mobile UniX systems. It leads you to a lot of useful hands-on information about installing and running Linux, BSD and other UniXes on laptops, PDAs and other mobile computer devices. Werner Heuser offers his Linux-HOWTOs and his book "Linux on the Road" there. Besides his work for MobiliX he is a Debian GNU/Linux maintainer. - -- |=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany |=| <wehe_AT_mobilix.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86 |=| http://MobiliX.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software |=| http://Xtops.DE Laptops+PDAs pre-installed with UniX |*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion(a)fsfeurope.org http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussion ------- End of Forwarded Message -- MJR

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Alan Cox talking in Swansea
by MJ Ray 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

Possibly of interest to someone on this side of the country. Replies not to me, please. ;-) ------- Forwarded Message Subject: [uklugs] Linux Public Lecture in Swansea Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:30:33 -0000 Reply-To: "Margaret Day" <m.day(a)swan.ac.uk> Hi I work in the Dept of Computer Science at University of Wales Swansea. On 5 March 2002 we're hosting a public lecture, sponsored by BT Ignite, where Alan Cox of Red Hat will be presenting a talk entitled "Doing things differently - Linux past, present and future". It will be a view of the history of the Linux operating system, and the free software movement behind it. An assesment of where Linux is now, and a look into the future needs and challenges of the operating system. As a 'public' lecture we'd like to advertise this to as wide a group as possible and I was wondering if we could use your distribution lists? I saw from your website that there are 4 contacts within Wales that I guess I could forward the info to, but I'd be grateful for your advice as to the best way to get this info out to any interested parties. Look forward to hearing from you Kind regards Margaret Day IT Network Wales Dept of Computer Science University of Wales Swansea 01792 295881 ------- End of Forwarded Message -- MJR

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RMS talking in London, 12 Feb
by MJ Ray 27 Jan '02

27 Jan '02

It looks as though I'll be there, as there's a possibly interesting (to me) conference in London that day. -- MJR Reply-To: Alex Hudson <home(a)alexhudson.com> To: FSFE-UK <fsfe-uk(a)gnu.org> Subject: [Fsfe-uk] [Fwd: [Gllug] Talk by Richard Stallman in London, 12 Feb] For those unaware, QMUL = Queen Mary, University of London, in the East end. I don't know if I'll be going yet - I'm going to try - if there are any fsfe-uk'ers going I might try harder ;) I know it's preaching to the converted, but hey. Alex. - -----Forwarded Message----- > Tuesday, 12 February at 7pm > Skeel lecture theatre, the people's palace > QMUL Mile End Campus > http://www.qmul.ac.uk/travel/mileend.shtml > > RICHARD STALLMAN, software hacker (in the "geek" sense), founder of the > Free Software Foundation and of the GNU Project, and principal author of > some of the most important GNU software, will briefly be in London in > February. We are fortunate enough to have him come to Queen Mary, > University of London, at short notice to give a public lecture on > "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks". > > Stallman has a long-held belief that software should be free in the same > way that mathematical knowledge has traditionally been free--this is > manifested in the GNU General Public Licence (and friends) and "copyleft". > > In order that we may gauge numbers, if you wish to attend the lecture > please contact Sue White: suew/rms(a)dcs.qmul.ac.uk or 020 7882 5217. > > > Lecture Abstract: > > Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed > to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing > press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer > networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. > > The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying > for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, > while suppressing public access to technology. But if we > seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of > copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the > public--then what must be done is either to reduce copyright > powers or effectively eliminate them, depending on the kind of > work. Governments must now protect the public's right to copy. > > > Background URLs about the GNU project, "GNU/Linux" and free software: > > http://www.uk.gnu.org/ > http://www.uk.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html > http://www.uk.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > http://www.uk.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html > http://www.uk.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html > http://www.uk.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html > http://www.uk.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html > http://www.uk.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html > http://www.uk.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html > http://www.uk.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html > http://www.uk.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html > > Richard Stallman's personal web page: > > http://www.stallman.org/ - -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug(a)linux.co.uk http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug ------- End of Forwarded Message -- MJR

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Forwarded message about Sheffield Linux Seminar
by markj＠cloaked.freeserve.co.uk 27 Jan '02

27 Jan '02

Organization: Sheffield Linux User's Group Subject: Linux Seminar Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:05:45 +0000 Reply-To: Richard Ibbotson <richard(a)sheflug.co.uk> Hi Just a quick note to explain about our seminar in February. If you would like to know about Samba 2.3 then you might like to come along and ask Jeremy Allison some questions. You might also want to talk to Georg Greve who is the president of the European Free Software Foundation. For more info have a look at.... http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar.html There will also be several other speakers who can probably give you some interesting facts. Although the whole thing is free and lunch will be served you will need to use the online registration form so that we can understand how many people will be coming along for lunch..... http://www.clubukonline.co.uk/local-events/Linux/linux.html we find that for some reason just the Netscape browser refuses to look at this page but I'm fine with Opera, Konqueror and Mozilla. Thanks -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk

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Fw: CRAFT project
by Martyn Drake 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:43:15 -0000 From: e.noble(a)coventry.ac.uk To: <martyn(a)drake.org.uk> Subject: CRAFT project The EPI Centre at Coventry University is participating in a project to help match European companies bidding for funds under the EC's Research and Development budget for SMEs known as CRAFT. CRAFT helps SMEs with limited research capability to develop new products or processes by paying the costs of a research organisation for them. I have recently been sent a profile for a project which has been proposed by an Italian company. They are looking for SME partners in the UK to join the Consortium. As it involves Linux, I wondered whether the following may be of interest to any of the companies in your association? (I can contact companies directly if this is easier). If any company is interested in participating or finding out more about the project, please either let me know or contact the details below as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you. With best regards Emma Emma Noble Project Assistant EPI Centre Coventry University TechnoCentre Puma Way Coventry CV1 2TT Tel: 02476 236593 GENERAL An Italian university spin off is looking for companies interested in developing a new system - VAS, a fully open source application to manage maintenance of legacy Microsoft Windows applications on a geographically distributed network. Catalogues are centralised on a Linux server, by means of Wine, and provided to client workstations using VNC. Companies interested in developing the VAS system itself, end users, interested in centralising Windows applications on a single server are being sought. DESCRIPTION The proposed solution is to centralise Windows applications and to distribute them through the Internet, using VNC and WINE. More in detail, the applications will be installed on a Linux server using WINE. Then, access to the applications will be provided using VNC, directly from the workstation of the users. In case of a new release of an application, it will be necessary only to update the installation on the server; on the client workstation the access will be performed again by the same VNC client. The innovation is to use two existing open source packages (WINE and VNC) to run Windows applications on a Linux server, and distribute them to users through the Internet. The Italian Company is looking for: -companies interested in marketing the server for specific Windows applications; -R&D partners interested in improving the existing WINE code, so to incraese the number of working Windows calls; - end users, interested in centralizing one of their Windows applications on a single server. Target Countries: Great Britain and Germany APPLICATION DOMAINS Industry - Transport Information Technology - Information processing, Information Systems CONTACT: Name: Paolo Bizzarri Phone: +39 050 970 207 Fax: +39 050 3136 588 Email address: p.bizzarri(a)icube.it www.icube,it Project Assistant EPI Centre Coventry University TechnoCentre Puma Way Coventry CV1 2TT Tel: 02476 236593

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The German Lawyer vs Free Software continues
by MJ Ray 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

------- Forwarded Message Reply-To: Werner Heuser <wehe(a)mobilix.org> Organization: MobiliX Subject: MobiliX.org: severe charge with trademark issues by "Asterix and Obelix" Dear List Member, Werner Heuser author of Linux on the Road ( A Guide for Laptops and PDAs) has been charged with trademark issues by the owner of the trademarks for Asterix and Obelix "Les Editions Albert Rene" (Paris). The name of his website MobiliX.org is supposed to be mistaken for Obelix. The trademark Obelix was registered by the German lawyer Guenter Freiherr v. Gravenreuth. The legal charge is up to 250.000 USD or six months prison. The costs of the first instance are app. 15.000 USD. Werner Heuser has decided not to withdraw the name "MobiliX". He is supported by the German lawyers Jaschinski, Biere und Brexl - JBB (http://www.jbb-berlin.de). This case is another one in the recent series of trademark troubles for Free Software projects (SAMBA, Kylix, Kilustrator, SELFHTML, SuSE, ..). Therefore this case seems to be very important not only because many of these projects have names ending on "iX". The MobiliX.org (http://mobilix.org) site is dedicated to Mobile UniX systems. Therefore its name is a combination of the word "mobile" and the suffix "iX". It leads you to a lot of useful hands-on information about installing and running Linux, BSD, Solaris and other UniXes on laptops, PDAs, cell phones and other mobile computer devices. It exists since five years and besides the famous site "Linux on Laptops" (http://www.linux-laptop.net) by Kenneth E. Harker it seems to be biggest resource on this topic. Current news about the case are at http://mobilix.org/mobilix_asterix.html Werner Heuser - -- |=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany |=| <wehe_AT_mobilix.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86 |=| http://MobiliX.org How to Use UniX on Mobile Computers |=| http://Xtops.DE Laptops+PDAs pre-installed with UniX |*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion(a)fsfeurope.org http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussion ------- End of Forwarded Message -- MJR

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More on the German Lawyer
by MJ Ray 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

------- Forwarded Message Subject: Re: MobiliX.org: severe charge with trademark issues by "Asterix and Obelix" Reply-To: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve(a)fsfeurope.org> Organisation: Free Software Foundation Europe Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 22:18:57 +0100 || On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:24:16 +0100 || Jan-Hendrik Palic <palic(a)billgotchy.de> wrote:=20 jp> What about all free projects with names, which are similar to jp> names from commercial names? I think it is more possible to get jp> into trouble with people like Gravenreuth every day those poeple jp> could do their work. Yes, it is obvious that the Free Software movement has not paid enough attention to this. jp> Are there people, where you can go, if you have some problem with jp> that, maybe the fsf? The FSF Europe already tries to do what it can. In fact we got in contact with Werner Heuser of MobiliX immediately when we heard about this and it is not really circumstantial that Till Jaeger (the lawyer of Werner Heuser) is also the lawyer of the FSF Europe. If you read the Heise article, you will even find that we are being mentioned there. In the earlier case that created a lot of fuzz, the case of Killustrator, we also had Till Jaeger investigate the matter. He was ready to defend the Killustrator project - and would most likely have won. Unfortunately the author of Killustrator and the University he published it from preferred to settle the matter by changing the name. Regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)fsfeurope.org> Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org) GNU Business Network (http://mailman.gnubiz.org) Brave GNU World (http://brave-gnu-world.org) ------- End of Forwarded Message -- MJR

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