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DATE | 2003-02-09 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: [Marketing] Re: [novalug] Re: [fairuse] Re: E-Gov-OS conference
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:38:47AM +0100, Claus Sørensen wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Ruben Safir wrote: > > > What's wrong with excluding them. Their not relevent to the conference > > and have nothing to contribute. > > Microsoft is an important producent for the governments. Most of them have > their current infrastructure running on a Microsoft platform.
But that doesn't qualifiy them for speakers at the conference. Their still not relevant to the conference.
> > Now Microsoft has given the governments the offer to see their source like > the open source software they are afraid the governments will use instead.
That's their problem. They can run a confernece.
> > Then we have to tell the government representives that this isn't Open > Source or Free Software just because they access to the source code. >
That will happen, but again, thatdoesn't make MS relevant to the conference. We can talk about the problem of 'Shared Sorce" without MS's help.
> And it will be best if the representives can hear Microsoft confirm what > we (the Free Software and Open Source community) are saying about Shared > Source. And at the same time tell them what Microsoft is saying about > GPL and Free Software is not correct. >
There is no need for this. Your wanting to rewoard them with a chair at the table because they created a scam. There is no need.
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