[Linux-aus] If you could ask Microsoft a question, what would it be?

[James Takac]

On Sunday 13 January 2008 10:36:30 Blindraven wrote:
> Wow, Allowing M$ business and tech to be at a FLOSS event because you are
> trying to be open minded and accepting.
> I wonder if thats what Hitlers wife had to do.
>
> If this is not selling out I don't know what is.
> Feel free to flame while I feel free to /ignore.
>
> Count me out.
>
> On Jan 13, 2008 12:26 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Steve Walsh <Steve at nerdvana.org.au> wrote:
> > > The same is occurring for LUV in February. Whilst I don't share the LUV
> > > President's belief that "..we've won, man, it's game over", I do think
> > > that it's interesting that they appear to have decided to hit two LUG's
> > > with rep's willing to receive both pointy and (hopefully not very many)
> > > pointless question within a short period of time.
> >
> > This is no victory by any stretch of the imagination. At best, it's the
> > beginning of a thawing of relations, but I'm even sceptical of that. That
> > does not mean that we should not try. Openness is our strength - we
> > should be
> > leveraging that more.
> >
> > Interesting (though not surprising) that LUV has been approached as well.
> > Is
> > there anything that SLUG and LUV can do to collaborate on this? LUV folk
> > are
> > free to post to and make use of our wiki page of questions:
> > http://wiki.slug.org.au/microsoftquestions
> >
> >
> > --
> > "We all suck."
> >  - Microsoft senior vice president Craig Mundie, September 2002
> >
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Come on now. That's the sort of thing the open source and linux communities 
are trying to foster as I understand it. Look at the licenses and oft you 
find you are free to repackage and sell the product so long as certain 
guidelines are met. Your statement smacks of "freedom for all! But not them 
as I don't like the way they do things!" Either freedom for all, or it's for 
none ;)

James