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| DATE | 2003-02-10 |
| FROM | From: "Stanley A. Klein"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: eGovOS conference in D.C.
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At 11:17 PM 2/9/2003 -0500, Ruben I Safir wrote:
>
>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.
>> >
>>
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>> 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.
The conference is the creation of the Cyberspace Security and Policy
Research Institute of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the
George Washington University.
I seriously doubt you could do anything like it without that kind of entity
organizing and sponsoring it.
If you want to try, have fun, good luck, and let me know in a few years if
you are getting anywhere.
Stan Klein
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