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DIGITAL LESSONS: Members of ILUG-Cochin at a workshop on free software as part of the Learn@newsroom, the continuing education programme of the Ernakulam Press Club, on Saturday. KOCHI: Believers of free software stood for a self-sustaining community based on freedom and truth. This idea was expressed at a workshop on free software organised by the Ernakulam Press Club in association with Indian Libre User Group (ILUG), Cochin that was held here on Saturday. The workshop was held as part of Learn@newsroom, the continuing education programme of the Press Club. The objective of the workshop was to create awareness about the free software among the media persons and to encourage them to use it for their professional as well as personal purposes. Jay Jacob, founder member of the ILUG-Cochin, talked on the history of free software and how its reach had increased over the years. He said that the campaign for free software had become a mass movement. The concept of free software, he said, was based on four concepts—freedom to use, study, modify and redistribute it. H. Sreenadh, a member of ILUG-Cochin, demonstrated the various applications available with free software. Its features more friendly as any other proprietary software, he said. Sanal Kumar, Malayalam teacher at the VHSS Irumpanam, said that free software was vital to preserve and save regional languages. He explained how the teachers at his school were able to understand the logic behind the usage of various applications of free software with ease and to implement it. Participants at the workshop were explained that free software is about freedom and did not mean getting it free.
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