On Apr 8, 2005 9:23 AM, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And please DONT INVITE MICROSOFT COMPANY! hehehehhee coz last year > > MSDN was there! It's nice that FULL OPENS SOURCE ONLY.... > > I wasn't involved in last year's event, so I don't know how exactly > Microsoft made it. :)
i wasn't there, maybe dido will discuss why microsoft was there. for myself, i don't think it's a big deal as long as they're not obnoxious. if they're willing to spend a lot of money, i say, take their money, use it to promote open source, and move on. maybe the money they pay will allow promoters to give discounts to locals who want to go there (i couldn't go to the last one because, frankly, i was new in manila and couldn't deal with the cost of entry, i've been in manila for a while now, but i still won't pay that much for the conference). i can sort of see why people might want microsoft out of there completely, but i don't really see the harm in them being there myself, as long as they're not being obnoxious and annoying people by buttonholing them or something. as long as they're not going to kick you in the head, and you can walk away if you get bored, i find it useful to be around people i don't agree with (e.g., personally, liberals, unscientific ecologists, politicians and scum). i usually learn something just because they look at the world so differently from the way i do. it doesn't mean i agree, nor even agree that there is value in what they say, but it's useful to see things from a different perspective. and again, if they're willing to put down the money, why not take their money and use it to help open source :). but this is not intended to start a flame war. i completely understand if people don't want microsoft there and if they would take their fingers off the triggers of their flamethrowers, i'll be grateful. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Mene sakhet ur-seveh -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
