I would vote against a presentation like that. It would bring nothing new to the Linux community, the fud we allready know, the new fud, we just had enough of it, dismissing it, we dont need. That would be a waste of time. We should concentrate on self improvement, and the improvement of Linux/oss and the general experience with them, that will be the ultimate winning. What integration, if ms keeps changing api and standards, without even documenting them, (just look at ntfs and the ldap protocol for example.), what kind of integration would you expect?
cheers Szemir On April 28, 2005 02:29, Shawn wrote: > I have a similar opinion, with a caveat... > > IF (this is a big if), a presentation can be done to show *HOW* MS products > can be integrated with Linux (lesson or workshop, focusing on the Linux > side), then I'd be interested. However, from what I've seen thus far, the > proposed presentation would be about product awareness and the usual MS > propaganda. > > I'd rather not see any product awareness presentations (and this has been > expressed to those who ARE doing presentations to us in the near future). > This type of info can be had by browsing the web, reviewing magazines, > and/or talking to our peers. I'm more interested in educational and > technical how-to's... > > BUT, I'm a single voice here - if the consensus is to bring in MS, then so > be it. > > My thoughts. > > Shawn > > On Wednesday 27 April 2005 20:39, Jesse Kline wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-27-04 at 12:48 -0600, Dave Watkins wrote: > > > What does the membership think? Should we bring him in for a monthly > > > meeting? Perhaps in August? > > > > > > What are your thoughts? > > > > I fail to see how a presentation by Microsoft would have anything to do > > with Linux. Since we are a Linux users group, I am against this type of > > presentation. Our members come to our meetings to learn more about the > > Linux operating system, so a presentation on another operating system > > would be completely off topic. Personally, I would much rather see > > Aaron's proposed presentation rather than this one. > > > > Jesse > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
