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| DATE | 2003-02-09 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: eGovOS conference in D.C.
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On 2003.02.09 13:24 Stanley A. Klein wrote:
> At 01:06 PM 2/9/2003 -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm not talking about compromise. Letting them speak at a conference where
> >> they will be skewered is not compromising.
> >
> >The conference is not an academic debate.
> >
> >Regardles of the election, dialague is never part of the proces.
> >
>
>
> The conference is sponsored by a university and is being held at a
> university. There better be an academic component to it or there is no
> justification for university sponsorship.
>
> Universities are all about dialogue. Try to stop it and you bring down the
> entire academic community on your head.
>
>
This has nothing to do with the stated goals of the conference. Maybe the university
shouldn't sponsor it. That's up to the Univerity. In any event, Microsofts presense
is not needed for dialogye. In fact, they are an impeedence to dialogue.
In fact, I attended an entire Free Software Conference in Borduax France with lots and lots
of dialogue without a single representitive from Microsoft. It was the largest meeting of
it's kind in Europe, LMS, in Europes largest University.
Ruben
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