On 2/8/07, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 00:30 +0530, Anupam Jain wrote: > [...] > > I have mixed views on Microsoft's participation in the event. > Personally, I feel that it is up to LFY to decide. Given that > Linux Asia is by no stretch of the imagination a community > event, and, the name notwithstanding, is hardly a beacon for the > promotion of free software, I see no reason for us to get overly > exercised.
Well even if Linux Asia was important to FOSS, I'd still find no reason to get excited. > > I liked ILUGD better when it wasn't committee-ised and decisions were > > not taken by individuals for the whole LUG. The freedom to fork is > > good but not the decision to do so on the slightest of provocation. > > It's not prudent to fragment the community like this. > > However, I will take strong exception to this snark, as you have been > repeating this baseless canard. Would you clarify what exactly you > mean by "...committee-ised and decisions were not taken by individuals > for the whole LUG", and what was your basis for making that rather > dramatic accusation? As has been intimated on this list, the decision > not to participate was made by voting among people present at ILUG-D > meetings, and was made before we were aware of Microsoft participation. > Though some people in ILUG-D have strong viewpoints on this, there was > no fatwa issued against participation, and, in fact, many ILUG-D members > apparently did participate, and some even enjoyed it. Please > substantiate your allegations, or post a public retraction. > Now I have been totally misunderstood it seems. I never said anyone was pressurized not to go. Just that for me ILUGD has been primarily this mailing list and I did not see a very public discussion on the mailing list before everything was done and over. The "committee" related decisions of ILUGD have been mostly off the list. I don't care usually except that in this case I think the decision was very wrong, something that would not have been so casually taken had there been a real free-for-all discussion on the same. My ILUGD boycotting a Linux event! Really! MS or no MS, that's a bit much. Please don't take it personally, I'm not saying I could have taken a better decision. I'm saying *we* all could have. 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/
