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Invitation to our summer restaurant-meeting !

by Pascal Steichen

Hi all, This summer's restaurant-meeting will take place at the "Il Fragolino" (italian food : http://www.il-fragolino.lu) Please confim your presence by mail : contact(a)linux.lu before monday 23/08/2004 ! Your better half is also welcome ;) Regards, -- Pascal Steichen pascal.steichen(a)linux.lu Lilux ASBL www.lilux.lu " Linux is like a woman, hard to understand But very nice once you get under the hood. "

21 years, 4 months

[Urgent Call: The countdown is running ...]

by Pascal Steichen

The LU page for this can be found here, but please read further to get more info about this action : http://www.linux.lu/wiki/index.php/FFIILetterAndPostCardAction Thanks for our help ! For LiLux asbl, pst ----- Forwarded message from Lars Noschinski <lars(a)public.noschinski.de> ----- Hello! As some as you may have read on bxl, yesterday the 20th and last translation of the Councils proposal for a directive "on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions" (better known as software patents) appeared on the councils website: http://register.consilium.eu.int/servlet/driver?page=Result&lang=EN&typ=Adv… For the delivery of the Urgent Call this means, the countdown has been started. After a six week period, the Council can formally adopt this political agreement, so this bad proposal will go the the Parliament again. To reach our aim of reversing the 18 May Council's decision, we have prepared the Urgent Call http://swpat.ffii.org/xatra/cons0406 an appeal to the national governments and parliaments to prevent the formal adoption of the May 18 Council's Decision and work on that directive on political (not bureaucratic) point of view. To be most effective, the UC must be delivered in all European countries. Some are partly finished, a few (Greece and France) are already done, but there are also some countries where nobody started it yet. If you don't want to software patents, this is a task where you can reach something meaningful. How can I participate? ====================== Nice to know there is so much support :) At first, you should find out, who's working on it in your country yet and contact him/her. You find this information on http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrCons0406En and your countries page linked from there may be information about the current state and open tasks. You can contact me, if you're missing the mail addresses. If you need support, consilium-parl will be glad to help you. How to subscribe is described on: http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/consilium-parl Nobody is taking care of it in my country! ========================================== That's the hard case. Fortunately, you can build on the preparations made in other countries. As you'll most certainly have questions and to stay informed, consilium-parl will be useful. Also, having 1-2 or more persons supporting you will make it easier. For collaborative work, there is a national wiki page, linked from http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrConsRecv0406En If you start working on it, please drop me a note, so I know somebody is taking care of it and I can rest easy ;) What's to be done? ================== For the delivery of the Urgent Call, some basic tasks must be done: * Collect the documents to send. The Urgent Call consists of the letter itself and some accompagning appendixes. The letter itself should be translated and typesetted. As time is running out now, I suggest not to translate the appendixes anymore, just use one of the translated versions, they are listed on http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrCons0406En, just like the instructions for translating * Find recipients For the beginning, collect 4-5 recipients (Head of state, head of parliament, concerned minister(s), (concerned MP)). List them with their addresses (post + phone if possible) on your national wiki page. If you started sending, you may extend this list to reach more people, but as we don't have much time, I suggest to start with a few. * Customizing Either you write a cover letter or you customize the letter to address it to each specific recipient (a "Dear Mr. President, ..." may be enough). Put a pdf online for every version. * Sending See also: http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrConsSend0406En Send it as a letter to each recipient. Phone them a few days later to ensure, that they received and read it. If there is a signatory from your country, he/she/it should be able to forward it too (CEA-PME has members in many european countries, this may be worth a look). Also other FFII supporters should spread it. If they write a short, personal cover letter, it'll improve attention. Links about the Urgent Call =========================== * The Urgent Call http://swpat.ffii.org/xatra/cons0406 * Reversal of the Council's decision http://kwiki.ffii.org/ConsReversEn * Main project page / news http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrCons0406En * Delivery organisation page (with links to national organisation pages) http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrConsRecv0406En * Sending instructions / results http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrConsSend0406En Thank you for reading this long mail! Lars Noschinski, project leader Urgent Call _______________________________________________ Lu-parl maillist Subscribe through the project system http://www.ffii.org/assoc/knecht/proj/, fine-tune via http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/lu-parl http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/lu-parl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Pascal Steichen pascal.steichen(a)linux.lu Lilux ASBL www.lilux.lu " Linux is like a woman, hard to understand But very nice once you get under the hood. "

21 years, 4 months

Bill Gates bei MC Donalds

by Alain Knaff

Bill Gates: Ich hätte gerne einen BigMac Kassierer: Ein Big Mac, eine Cola. Macht 6,99. Bill Gates: Ich habe nur einen BigMac bestellt! Kassierer: Die Cola gehört dazu, ist Teil eines Gesamtpakets. Bill Gates: Wie bitte? Die Cola zahle ich nicht Kassierer: Brauchen sie auch nicht. Die Cola ist gratis. Bill Gates: Aber kostete der BigMac alleine bisher nicht 3,99? Kassierer: Stimmt, aber der BigMac hat jetzt neue Leistungsmerkmale. Er hat eine Cola im Lieferumfang! Bill Gates: Ich habe eben erst eine Cola getrunken. Ich brauche jetzt keine Cola. Kassierer: Dann gibt's auch keinen BigMac. Bill Gates: Na gut, ich zahle 3.99 und verzichte auf die Cola. Kassierer: Man kann die Teile des Gesamtpaketes nicht trennen. BigMac und Cola sind nahtlos integriert. Bill Gates: Quatsch. BigMac und Cola sind zweierlei! Kassierer: Passen sie mal auf. (Er tunkt den BigMac in einen Becher Cola.) Bill Gates: Was soll denn das? Kassierer: Das ist im Interesse des Kunden, So können wir einen einheitlichen Geschmack in allen Komponenten garantieren.

21 years, 4 months

geek battles

by Patrick Useldinger

Hi, found this highly instructive: http://www.osviews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=18…

21 years, 4 months

lb.wikipedia.org

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, on behalf of Bob Hentges, I'm hereby announcing that http://lb.wikipedia.org/ is online - yes, the luxembourgish version of Wikipedia! Feel free to participate in the effort! Greetings, Eric

21 years, 4 months

Linux & Munich bad news

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, according to Heise, Munich puts it's Linux migration project on hold, because of a risk analysis regarding software patents. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/49735 Thanks to the german federal government for that one :-( Greets Eric

21 years, 4 months

Announcement Linux Kongress 2004

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi all, http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004/ The Linux Kongress is taking place from September 7th to 10th in Erlangen, Germany. It is a very technical series of tutorials and presentations. (Very) High-level people from the Linux (I might add GNU/, but there really are kernel guys ;-)) developers community will be there to present their work. The proceedings are in english. If you're interested, be quick to register & pay, as it will get you a tariff reduction - no reduction available for being LiLux member, I'm afraid. Greetings, Eric

21 years, 4 months

HP & Linux Notebook

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, something long awaited has come true - a large company finally brings us a notebook with GNU/Linux preloaded: <http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/04/08/03/2351243.shtml?tid=163&tid=173&tid=…> <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/08/03/fin…> "The HP notebook is available in North America through HP's online store and to international customers on request." Greetings, Eric

21 years, 4 months

[Fwd: EU Software Patents Jeopardise Munich's Linux Migration; FFII Patent Search Triggers Motion by Munich Alderman]

by Serge Marelli

Voilà, un nouvel argument contre les brevets logiciels, respectivement pour si on s'appelle MSFT. Serge -----Forwarded Message----- From: Florian Mueller <florian(a)mysql.com> To: 'Bxl' <bxl(a)ffii.org> Subject: EU Software Patents Jeopardise Munich's Linux Migration; FFII Patent Search Triggers Motion by Munich Alderman Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:06:30 +0200 FFII Patent Search Triggers Motion by Munich Alderman EU Software Patents Jeopardise Munich's Linux Migration Munich, 07/30/2004 -- When the city administration of Munich decided to migrate its IT infrastructure to the Linux operating system, it made headline news around the world. That project is now being threatened by a proposed European Union directive on software patents. The directive is pushed for by the governments of Germany, the UK, France, and other countries on the EU Council. Software patents are considered the greatest danger to the usage and development of Linux and other Free Software. A cursory search by FFII revealed that the Linux "base client", which the city of Munich plans to install on the desktop computers of approximately 14,000 employees, is in conflict with more than 50 European software patents. Today Jens Muehlhaus, an alderman from the Green Party, filed two motions in which he calls on the mayor of Munich, the Social Democrat Christian Ude, to contact the federal government of Germany on this matter and to analyse how the EU software patent directive affects Munich's Linux project. The politician, a supporter of open source, warns that patent infringement assertions could take entire departments of the city administration out of operation. He attached the preliminary result of FFII's patent search to his motions. Mr. Muehlhaus expresses concern over the future ability of open source software to meet the needs of the city administration if software patents massively hinder its development. Related caveats have been voiced by the SME association CEA-PME and by Deutsche Bank Research. A week earlier, the chief information officer of Munich, Wilhelm Hoegner, said it is "indispensable" to check on the consequences of the software patent directive to open source software. Any such oversight would be a "catastrophe for Munich's Linux migration project, and for open source in general". Florian Mueller, an active participant in the software patent debate, sees the EU Council on the wrong track: "Open source is a historic opportunity for Europe to save costs and create jobs. Schroeder, Blair and Chirac should demonstrate leadership and stop their civil servants from sacrificing the open source opportunity to the insatiable patent bureaucracy, lest some large corporations will shut down open source and many SMEs." Mr. Mueller is a software entrepreneur, and an adviser to Europe's largest open source software company MySQL. http://kwiki.ffii.org/Limux040730En _______________________________________________ bxl mailing list (un)subscribe via http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/bxl and http://aktiv.ffii.org/. If you subscribed via the latter, you can unsubscribe only by going to both. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux, Luxembourg LUG : http://www.linux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/

21 years, 4 months

[Fwd: Open group + IBM's declaration of independence]

by Serge Marelli

Chers zamis, membres z'et lecteurs, Je vous fais suivre ce petit message qui pourrait vous intéresser... un appel (pétition) pour l'utilisation de standards et méthodes de traitement de données ouverts... Ca vaut peut-être la peine de jeter un oeil Serge -----Forwarded Message----- I've read about a (new?) statement by OpenGroup and IBM which is looking for developers to sign it. It's an endorsement to standards and open data processing. http://www.opengroup.org/declaration/declaration.htm Apparently Open Group (Posix certification, etc.) used to be less than nice to the free software community but changed policy one year ago (I don't know for real, I've read it somewhere). I forgot whether Open Group had any stated position on swpats (which are an impediment to open standards ). I wonder if this declaration means that IBM wants EP amendment 6a on interoperability... Did anybody hear more about this ? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux, Luxembourg LUG : http://www.linux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/

21 years, 4 months

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