Hi,
I think the organizers might have thought that it is their FREEDOM(?!?) to use windows in the conference.
So please go and read free software philosophies immediately.
If u want to advice others not to drink alcohol, then first you should not drink alcohol. If u already drinking alcohol and advising others not to drink the same, then who will listen to ur words? And also this will spoil all the efforts of other GOOD ADVISERS
If u r a die-hard fan of those proprietary softwares, then please stay away from all free software activities..........dont spoil the free software philosophies any more
Regds, Yaanilan
2008/12/12 Yaanilan EP yaanilan@gmail.com:
I think the organizers might have thought that it is their FREEDOM(?!?) to use windows in the conference.
I think this an important point to remember in any Free Software conference we are going to organize. We should clearly state the speaker should use Free Formats and Free Software for delivery. If he cannot meet that requirement, he is simply not qualified to present at a Free Software conference.
It is indeed bad to promote proprietary software in a Free Software conference. I believe the said speaker was using his personal laptop. In that case we could have offered a Free System for him to present.
It clearly shows how vigilant our community is.
Cheers Praveen
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 21:57 -0800, Praveen A wrote:
2008/12/12 Yaanilan EP yaanilan@gmail.com:
I think the organizers might have thought that it is their FREEDOM(?!?) to use windows in the conference.
I think this an important point to remember in any Free Software conference we are going to organize. We should clearly state the speaker should use Free Formats and Free Software for delivery. If he cannot meet that requirement, he is simply not qualified to present at a Free Software conference.
It is indeed bad to promote proprietary software in a Free Software conference. I believe the said speaker was using his personal laptop. In that case we could have offered a Free System for him to present.
It clearly shows how vigilant our community is.
I second your recommendation. Let us be extra vigilant and also send this communication to each speaker very CLEARLY in all our future events, and we should tell them that we will not take it less seriously. We certainly do not want our forum should be used for promoting proprietary software.
Nagarjuna
I second your recommendation. Let us be extra vigilant and also send this communication to each speaker very CLEARLY in all our future events, and we should tell them that we will not take it less seriously. We certainly do not want our forum should be used for promoting proprietary software.
Will Ubuntu be accepted as Free Software at the next conference as I can see from some of the pictures?
:D
I guess you can. My stall at the conference was running ubuntu.
Sunil
Will Ubuntu be accepted as Free Software at the next conference as I can see from some of the pictures?
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