Hi, On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:00 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > Yutaka Kachi wrote: > > catchãã
> > Translation begins --- > > This year's [OO.o] Regicon was held as part of OpenSource Conference > (OSC2005). The speaker from Microsoft was one of those speakers who > OSC2005 invited into the event. The reason for that was the OSC2005 > event committee (of which I was a member) particularly wanted some > publicity. We also hoped to attract participants who were not > necessarily familiar with the open-source, in addition to those who > already were. From that point of view, I think we had a pretty good > success in that regard. > > I speculate that even Microsoft may have had an intention of sending a > message to the open-source community [by delivering a speech in an > open-source event like this]. I'm not sure if they succeeded in terms > of that, because the popularity of that particular speech didn't appear > to be very high. > > In the same time slot as the Microsoft speech session, I was giving a > OO.o 2.0 demonstration session in a separate, and much smaller room, and > my session attracted just as many people as the MS session did. Congratulations for this! I see now that MS is playing the same game everywhere. They always wish to communicate on everything, and they would always have a booth in any FLOSS exhibition. But as far as I saw at least in Paris and Berlin they were never successul at attracting many people there... Charles. > > --- > > translation by Kohei > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
