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. _______________________________________________ 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/
