On 2/7/07, Raj Shekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > "
Did something like that happen in LA too? If not then it's not something worth raising so much fuss over is it? Regards, Anupam Jain _______________________________________________ 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/
