On 2/7/07, Anupam Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/7/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 07-Feb-07, at 5:24 PM, Anupam Jain wrote: > > > > >> hold that doing so is the biggest danger to the development of > > >> software. So the analogy is exact. > > > > > > Wouldn't you call making money from software being "in the software > > > business"? > > > > making money how? that is the question. I make money buying and > > selling shares and the money i make depends on my knowledge of the > > share market. You make money buying and selling shares and the money > > you make depends on manipulating the market and insider trading. Are > > we in the same business? > > On 2/7/07, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anupam did you attend LA? If yes then your opinion - unbiased - on > > what M$ did to promote the theme - Linux Asia - is welcome. If not > > then in line with your snipped comment "your opinion is not worth much > > .. is it?" > > > > Appreciate the fact that there is whole lot of community involved and > > we are open to LiFY's view point in spite of obvious hurt caused by > > their action to something the community hold dear. If you do not hold > > OSS and Linux dear to your heart then also we will welcome you to > > express your opinions but do not crap on our face and expect us to be > > silent. > > Again I somehow feel that we have this image of Microsoft that we love > to believe in. Shouldn't we react to Microsoft-the-company's-actions > instead of Microsoft-the-company-period? Targetting Microsoft perhaps > gives us a big target to fight, but only when fighting *for the cause* > is not good enough. For me the cause is bigger than Microsoft and it's > trying to muscle in on Linux events is only a sign of good things. I > would not lose sleep over it. > > I was not in Delhi during that time and could not attend but I plan to > do it the next time unless someone gives me a good reason to do so > otherwise. If something negative happened in LA this time do let us > know. It would be a very sad thing to see no participation from ILUGD > for reasons *unknown*. >
becoz you missed the ILUGD meetings..! i think the roots of community being skeptic about LA were set in the past events itself.. & personally after seeing 2006 one.. & participating in .ORG mela fiasco, i too share the mood...where you could feel the impression that here the community is secondary!.. thankfully there wasnt a .org mela again (whatever their reasons).. when an event of big scale is to be organized the planning has to be well in advance..& engaging with the community has to begin early on & not at last minute.. with less than a month left for the event! Karunakar _______________________________________________ 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/
