On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 21:48 +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > "Kamal Dave" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In my opinion the decision to opt out has its god grounds but by not > > participating in the LA2007, there was an opportunity afforded to the MS to > > hack the cause of conference. It must always be understood the control > > over > > the conference schedules also was given to the MS for stating their point > > and in the ultimate the lug remained the looser.
> A serious, alert [would be] customer will notice the absence of FLOSS > activists in an event which is supposed to be about FLOSS. I will second Mahesh's opinion, in opposition to what several people have implied: That it is somehow the LUG's job to spread Linux (I explicitly use Linux, rather than free software as a whole). Personally, I couldn't care less if the rest of the world uses proprietary software, as long as there is a viable free software community. Maybe it is time for the free software companies that sponsor Linux-Asia to wake up and smell the roses, but as far as I am concerned LA2007 was no skin off my nose. At least at present, there are more fruitful avenues for the promotion of free software. > If s/he is does not notice, s/he is not a worthy customer. Precisely. There are none so blind as those that refuse to see. If one puts aside the egotism of working for a *good* cause, it becomes apparent that people are really willing to make a change only when the impetus comes from their side. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
