[ILUG-Cochin.org] Malayalam in Firefox on a mac

[bobinson]

In short, we can discuss about FOSS tools in this list irrespective of the
the underlying OS - Platform is non-free ? (I personally support that)

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Dinkar, after all the world is so small :-)
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2009/8/4 Dinkar Mohana Pai <din at dinkar.com>

> Hello Bobinson,
> Take it easy, and if it my fault, I apologize.
>
> My first question was regarding an opensource application - Firefox.
>
> My explanation on installation - The fonts mentioned are GPL GNU / Public
> domain.
>
> I agree the OS I mentioned is not opensourse, but I remember the group
> discussing lot of opensource apps problems on a closed source OS.
>
> So I do not think the discussion gone totally offtopic. Afterall we were
> helping people who can't read unicode fonts.
>
> [offtopic]
>
> And on a diff topic, we know each other too :)
>
> Reg : Chintha magazine and Picture of perumatti
>
> [/offtopic]
>
> Best Regards
> Din.
>
> On 04-Aug-09, at 3:32 PM, bobinson wrote:
>
> I am no GNU fanatic. For example I am dare to say that Photoshop is the
> most user friendly product out there in the image editing world and Gimp UI
> show follow suite. But at the same time, my idea about about a Libre /
> Freedom oriented group is discussions about freedom and liberty and not
> otherwise. At the same time Dinkar's discussion was about adding little bit
> freedom to an OS which is otherwise not free. Its my duty as a list member
> to cross check whether non-free discussions are allowed here - especially
> when I am not 100% aware of the list rules.
>
> @Devadas OT  - it seems we have met once. Few years back and I am still
> using the Debian distro you gave me :-) though not sure.
>
>
>
> 2009/8/4 Devadas VM <vm.devadas at gmail.com>
>
>> Bobinson,
>> I have replied to Dinkar's query since I'm not a Lin-fanatic
>>
>> rest is the duty of group admin...
>>
>> Dinkar,
>> If the group have any issue on discussing the same, plz make separate
>> thread including all those who responded to ur query
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Dinkar Mohana Pai <din at dinkar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bobinson, "why so serious" :) lol
>>>
>>> Why should we go soooooo strict in the list ?
>>>
>>> If we keep on discussing things like installing Debian in text mode or
>>> configuring a router, firewall and stuff, why not something simple that is
>>> useful for the common man ?
>>>
>>> The discussion started because I had a tough time reading unicode
>>> websites in Firefox. I searched for months and checked various links before
>>> posting in this mailing list.
>>>
>>> I found there are people who are having same issue, and that is how
>>> 'Safari' came to the the discussion, not intentional.
>>>
>>> The fonts I referred -
>>>
>>> Meera - is a GNU GPL font and
>>>
>>> AnjaliOldLipi - is the only public domain font available for Malayalam
>>>
>>> So it is not a big crime I guess ?
>>>
>>> Anyway, leaving it to Sameer :)
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Din.
>>>
>>> On 04-Aug-09, at 3:02 AM, bobinson wrote:
>>>
>>>  Attention List Admin:
>>>>
>>>> Libre, Freedom, Firefox, Mac, Safari the next is installing ml fonts on
>>>> win32 ?
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