Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-18 Thread Aditya Sharma
my response was a less a defence of Angad Singh and more a reflection of my opinion which is that this thread is a pointless discussion, however you may think that it may lead to a more fruitful outcome in the future, it may, but I see little scope of it considering both parties are quoting each ot

Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-17 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Aditya Kumar Sharma [17/06/08 13:32 +0530]: >quite frankly i think its just plain stupid what all of you are doing, >this IMHO is like a group of five year old kids bragging how strong >their dog is, how big his teeth are, how furry his coat is, it seems >awfully important thing to do when y

Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-17 Thread Aditya Kumar Sharma
quite frankly i think its just plain stupid what all of you are doing, this IMHO is like a group of five year old kids bragging how strong their dog is, how big his teeth are, how furry his coat is, it seems awfully important thing to do when you are five but when you grow up one realizes that

Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what his motives are. > I know what my motives are, and they aren't monetary at all. You just want to prove otherwise, all of you and won't give up until you prove it. You are confused with your own principles

Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
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 n

Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
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 -