On Thursday 01 February 2007 18:47, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 2/1/07, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
such an event. What is the criteria for participating in this apparently Linux event?
A FOSS event should ideally have no criteria for participation. The F stands for free=freedom after all.
Correct. And what better way to do it than on M$ money. Leverage it fully and charge hefty premiums. Keep a foss speaker after every M$ speaker. Plaster the venue with GNU/Linux postives. Ensure that lug delhi has a nice stall adjacent to M$ so that the crowd moves to you AFTER visiting M$.
Conversely, is there any way a Linux company can participate in an Microsoft promoting event and talk about the virtues of Linux?
Unlikely. All the more reason to use the opportunity. What the hell are u afraid of anyway?. All u need is visibility and M$ might unwittingly help in getting you that. M$ is mean, crooked and a marketing machine and you have to (and u can) beat them at marketing. That would leave them with only meaness and crookednes.