Anupam Jain wrote:
> 
> FOSS is not about forcing a choice. It's about letting people know
> that a choice exists so that they can take a well informed decision. I
> see nothing wrong with letting MS parade the choices it has for offer
> and us parading what we have. If MS pays us good money to hold such a
> showoff and that too *on our turf* then what is the problem? Why are
> we worried unless we believe that Vista is better than Linux and MS is
> better than FOSS and so on and so forth.

This argument is based on the assumption that MS will play fair.  If you 
read link that I posted < 
http://samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/column11.html>, you will 
see this quote
"
The only sparks that flew where when Microsoft made it abundantly clear 
that they would use their patent portfolio to prevent the spread of GPL 
software.
"

Remeber "Us" is a bunch of volunteers and "MS" is a truckload of people 
who have been (wo)manning booths for a large part of their working life. 
The argument here is that the speakers should be made aware that MS is a 
partner in this event and the LUG is not happy about it.  There is no 
talk of stopping someone from attending the event.
-- 
raj shekhar
facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.

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