Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > Well, > > Everything was going fine until I saw who was sponsoring it. > > This is another example of O'Reilly getting in bed with a company that > has not been very friendly to Linux and FOSS. > > I am sure that they would love to get people's names on a mailing list. > > Do you think they would mind if GNHLUG brought along 100 or so disks of > free Software and gave it out to the attendees? > > md
Hey all, Is there any objection to my going to this? I'm ex-chairman, not current chairman, and less involved than many other people, but I'm not worried about either M$ or O'Reilly getting my contact info (both already have it many times over) and I'm happy to represent the FOSS viewpoint. (There's another slot open as well - they said two per UG, but in practical terms I doubt they'll care if we bring a few over the limit.) I'll bring some open source books - I'll get some copies of my various publications from Apress and sign them, and my experience is that other publishers rarely have the moxie to complain when I do that - and if someone wants to supply some FOSS discs to give away, I can do that as well. (Isn't there some FOSS-For-Windows-With-Ubuntu-Dual-Boot discs made en masse for something?) Take it easy, -- David Berube Berube Consulting http://berubeconsulting.com (603)-485-9622 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
