From: "Anupam Jain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> The event needed money and they were paying lots. Call a spade a spade.
>> If they weren't paying this huge mail wouldn't have been there, right?
>> M$ ideology is exactly opposite of Linux ideology, so its like Smirnoff
>> sponsoring the Alcoholics Anonymous meet.
> Except that Smirnoff is in the Alcoholic drinks business which is 'by
> definition' opposed to an AA meet's purpose. Where as Microsoft is in
> the software business, just like the FOSS fellows. Microsoft
> sponsoring the LA event is NOT the same as Smirnoff sponsoring an AA
> meet.
Do you know what the Free Software movement stands for? I am not sure
about the Open Source initiative, but atleast the Free Software
movement is about software, philosophy and law. All three of them
strongly relating to software freedom. Therefore the statement
"Microsoft is in the software business, just like the FOSS fellows" is
faulty. Microsoft was never in the business of spreading the
philosophy of software freedom, and never supported any legislation to
implement it.
> I really don't understand what the big deal is. If the agenda was
> sabotaged by Microsoft by just being a partrner/sponsor then let's
> hear it in concrete terms *how*.
Next time we talk of fighting the drug menace, we should inform the
Taliban drug lords from Afghanistan. They will have plenty of money to
pay for your tea and biscuits.
Cheerio,
Debarshi
--
After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box.
-- Italian proverb
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