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| DATE | 2003-05-20 |
| FROM | Richard Stallman
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: A thought
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> So how about mending some fences with the folks who insisted that
> "fairness" toward Microsoft is always a bad policy, and that advocacy
> groups should be accountable to their constituents? Next time, maybe
> Ruben will dress up in support of one of your causes!
Well, I noticed that the executive director of the FSF was there in
normal clothing, and the director of FSF Europe, too.
The FSF does not approve of the way that conference was run, and
therefore did not participate. Brad went as an individual, to meet
other attendees. It does not indicate any support from the FSF
for the conference practices.
The biggest news story from the conference was an announcement by
Microsoft, about software that is not free and not even open source.
You were had.
The next conference, in Europe, is to be called "free software and
open source" I am told. That's a satisfactory handling of that issue.
But I don't think I should participate if Microsoft will be invited to
do anything other than participate in an explicitly adversarial
debate.
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