On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, Angad Singh 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. > > > > 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. > > I don't get it. Why can't I talk about something that I care for just > because I am in being paid by someone to promote it in my campus. If > you work for mozilla, you're not allowed to talk about Firefox? If > you work for RedHat, then you probably shouldn't even be on this > list, as you're every post about Fedora would be in bad taste, right?
I've yet to see a RH employee (and we do have a few on this list as far as I know) marketing any of RH's products or services here. Please note there's a difference between bringing out a strength of your company in a specific, relevant context and just going and willy-nilly plugging your product where there is no context and no relevance. Regards, -- 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/
