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. -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ 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/