## Sorry for adding to the lists traffice, but I felt Thomases mail
## required a responce.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 03:18:35PM -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Just my two cents: I'd be pretty PO'd if we had a Linux product launch
> and a bunch of MS advocates showed up passing out Win2K CD's and
> evangelizing MS operating systems. Granted, that would never in a million
> billion gazillion years actually happen, BUT - if it did, I'd be hacked
> off.
I suppose by the same account, if you were opening a whaling company -- you
would be hacked if green peace showed up to protest the killing of whales.
In this case, its software, and the slaughter of all rational thought.
I think you are missing the point; If MS wanted to come evangelize at LWE,
they should be more then welcome to do so -- assuming they do it in a polite
non-hostile manner. The "OS" war, isn't so much about Linux VS MS, if you
believe it is, then I think you have fallen into the abyss of buzz-word
compliancy; and forgotten what Linux is really about.
> associated with those who are. Let's keep out of this kind of rude
> behavior. We have to be better than them.
Implementation details make it rude, the act it self is not. Further there
is a *great* deal of historical evidence to suggest such an event can be
done in a respectful and non-offensive manner. See the various sites
documenting simular actions over the last 10 years.
The intention was not to start a holy-war; the intention was to have a little
fun and give away free-software.
Perhaps it was a bad idea, after all, but *not* for any of the reasons stated.
The only good reason I can see for not having such an event, is that the
linux community as a whole is entirely too focused on "beating" MS. This
focus is incredibly short-sighted and I do not really want to do anything
to aid that misguided vision of domination. On the other-hand, its just a
chance to give away some free software to people.
-Matt
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