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| DATE | 2003-02-17 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: [fairuse] Re: [Marketing] Re: Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU
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Thank You for the feedback. I've reviewed a large number of suggetions
regarding this, and I will likely graft it onto my current thinking
with regars to this issue.
It's seriously doubtful that the egov-os is more representitive of the
community than NY Fair Use. It's seriously doubtful any LUG, or other
Open Source, or Free Software organization would have turned this
event as it has. I would have to say that the some odd 500 plus
email's in my mail box in support of a rackus protest is an indication
of the outrage of this move. Other motivations outside of the communities
best interest has come into play to make this happen as it has.
As I said previously, this discussion and the backlash of the community
goe beyound the affect of just the egov-os conference. There is a general
need to hold organizers responsible to the communities well-being.
Unfortunately, there is no current mechanism to make of these self-appointed
advocates responsible to the wishes of the community. The last I looked,
and I could be wrong, neither, Tony, Bruce, or Richard are elected officals to
any organizations. I'm the only representive of an elected body repreenting
any of the community. This is why NYLXS was setup as a Decomcratic and
responsible agency.
However, as the head of NY Fair Use, I consider raucous Demonstrations which
are either marginalized in the publics eye, or viewed as destructive, as being
of no use. And a such, I will not lead, as much as people have asked me too,
a large, unorganized, counter productive rabble to Washington, just to make
people unhappy.
Neither am I interested in going point to point with Microsoft. They are
irrelevant in to the issue directly. We are planning an action to achieve
our goals. And those goals is to cause those who produce such advocacy
programs, especially those focused on business oppurtunities, to evalute
corperate entries to these meetings based on their merits in promoting the
communitiees goals, and not, as what apears to have happened here, to
promote their own selfish self-interests.
As such, NY Fair Use is crafting, hopefuly, a useful approach to this problem.
And it is clear that an investigation of the orgaizers of this event is
necessary, if for no other reason than to bring to light where things here
went wrong, and how to avoid such mistakes in the future.
Ruben
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> There isn't much any of us can do other than ask that you put
> considerable thought into any actions. I believe everyone here is trying
> to promote Free Software. It should be a concern to you to hear that
> others with the same goals are disagreeing that some intended actions may
> backfire against that shared goal.
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