On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On 17-Jun-08, at 9:35 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
> > If you're earning money as a Sun ambassador or whatever, it's in
> > rather
> > bad taste to be plugging them on a FOSS mailing list, regardless of
> > whether the software you're pushing is FOSS or not.
>
> NRC-FOSS pays me to promote FOSS, and NRC-FOSS - does that mean that
> 'plugging' these initiatives on *this* mailing list is in bad taste?

If you're plugging a specific product out of context, yes.  AFAIK NRCF 
is product/distro-agnostic.

> > At the very least, add a disclaimer that says that you earn money
> > for plugging Solaris so that there are no ambiguities about your
> > motives.
>
> so are you implying that his motives are love of money and not love
> of foss?

I don't know what his motives are.

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