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Free software edge to forge ahead
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| CMRIT students, meanwhile, are preparing to
| work on ORCA, a screen-reading software
| used by the visually challenged on Ubuntu
| (Linux) which needs further enhancements.
| âWe are also creating a whole new desktop
| environment for engineering students to
| work entirely on Gnu-Linux,â Abhinav said.
|
| MSRIT conducts Mukthi, an annual developer
| event to work with GLUGs from across the
| City and interact with those working on
| specific platforms. CMRIT also holds
| monthly events to create an environment of
| learning for students.
|
| Senthil believes the activities would stand
| the students in a good stead in finding
| jobs. With companies like Google and Fedora
| coming out to select interns to work with
| them for a sizable scholarship, he said
| interest in Free Software would soon spread
| to other colleges.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/74339/free-software-edge-forge-ahead.html
GNU/Linux grows fast in India.
Recent:
India vows to sabotage ACTA
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| Fed up with the controversial Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), India
| hopes to whip up an anti-ACTA chutney so
| spicy that negotiators have no choice but to
| purge every trace of the loathed agreement
| from their systems.
|
| Though countries like Morocco are involved,
| rich countries have driven the ACTA process.
| The World Trade Organizationâignored. The
| World Intellectual Property Organizationâ
| bypassed. Instead of using the very fora that
| they played such a role in establishing,
| countries like the US, EU, Canada, Japan, and
| Australia formed a coalition of the willing.
| ACTA has been negotiated in secret, though
| the recently released negotiating draft text
| envisions a permanent secretariat that will
| receive new members.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/india-vows-to-sabotage-acta.ars
India Seeking Allies To Oppose ACTA
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| With the next round of Anti-Counterfeiting
| Trade Agreement negotiations scheduled for
| later this month in Lucerne, Switzerland
| (governments have been painfully slow this
| round in confirming dates, location, and
| agenda), the global politics behind the
| agreement escalated over the weekend with
| Indian officials acknowledging that they plan
| to establish a coalition of government
| opposed to the agreement. Reports indicate
| that a major concern involves the possible
| seizure of goods in transit, which raises
| access to medicines fears with the potential
| detention of generic pharmaceuticals.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5076/125/
India Gearing Up To Fight ACTA; Seeking Other, Like-Minded, Countries
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| But, of course, according to various folks at
| the USTR and the Copyright Office, now that
| ACTA's been released, it's proven that all
| the "fears" from online sources were
| misguided. Right?
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100601/0354539639.shtml
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