Best thingy,
To stay happy, Stay away from all such crappy PR events meant to fatten their images. Calling their VP's and CEO's to give long pep talks meant to create mind share with customer such that they allow for bigger holes to be blown in their own pockets.
After all these suckers just want to fatten their pockets. And we all know their attitude well enough. Nothing to write home about. Box pushers.....or Software license sellers....call em whatever you may, it just takes one such incident to dent their image.
I pray that the ideals of FSF-OS rule above all. And as JTD suggests time and again history has proven that sanity rules inspite of the crusades men have launched against their own brethren.
Trevor
--- Saswata Banerjee scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
Amasing !!! I too registered but didn't go to the event. Looks like a good thing I didn't waste time.
I do not understand, however what was the basis on which they didn't allow you in. I thought registering on web and getting the confirmation was the way to do it.
Regards saswata
yayati singh yayatisingh@yahoo.co.uk wrote: __________
This has been the most horrible experience i have
had in the recent
times, Redhat had invited people from the Industry
for their just
concluded Event on Open Source, and after receiving
a mail confirmation
on the same, and reaching the venue on time, we
where not allowed
inside, on the pretext that we had only Registered
on the website (Why
on the first place did they Invite all to Register
on the Website is
not known and hard to understand), Just b'cause the
Event was held at a
Prestigious Hotel with a Cocktail dinner??? the
guys where not attended
to and allowed to participate?? well Redhat has to
come up with some
Answers for the same. Numerous people who may have canceled their
appointments and work just
to attended this Event where to their horror left
out of the Event
without any Courtesy, Hope Javed Tapia, Sachin
Dabir, Animesh Singh,
Rama Singh, Our own Venky, and miss Aditi's
listening, are we seeing an
Emerging Alternative to Microsoft and the Likes, or
does Redhat want to
portray that they are the Only Ones providing Open
Source Solutions, If
they feel thay have a Monopoly on GNU Based
Distributions thay are for a
shock. I have my grievances not b'cause i missed out on a
cocktail party, but
the way people where treated from our own community
at Such Events. The
hard work of numerous GNU Community Soldiers is
being capitalized buy
such a disorganized company as Redhat, and they
want to term them selfs
as Leaders who are taking the Industry towards Open
source.
Regards yayati.
quoting Rehats Confirmation mail.
Thank you for your interest in the Red Hat World
Tour 2004.
You are currently registered for the following
event in Mumbai:
Date: Thursday, 30 September 2004 Time: 6-9:30pm Venue: The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Address: Apollo Bunder, Mumbai 400 001 Function Room: Chrystal Central Hotel Ph: 91 22 5665 3366
Come listen to Red Hat executives, engineers, and
product managers, as
well as partners Intel and Oracle, explain how open
source is creating
faster, cheaper, more secure and reliable solutions. Come
ask questions. Give us
feedback. And learn how the Open Source
Architecture model gives
companies the choice they need to improve their business.
===== |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | ) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ ____________________________________/ _|_|
_______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com