Well i think sam is Right. And dave have a point. The microsoft we used to know
is not the same company again. MS is really chasing into linux these
days(Ubuntu). With their recents bash addition to the windows 10. I think If
getting money from Microsoft won't spoil our goal as a community i don't think
we should object. The goal of SL is to be in every OS and Microsoft windows is
one. So i think we should think about it and discuss the disadvantages and
advantage of their funds.
I think Money is Money though.
Samson Goddy
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:07:23 +1000
From: sam.parkins...@gmail.com
To: d...@lab6.com
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Revision 50 of the Sugar Labs Fundraising Committe notes
CC: la...@somosazucar.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
Well, Google is really one of the biggest non-free software vendors today, so
saying yes to google and no to microsoft is very silly.
Also, organisations are big. Google makes Google Classroom and Google Apps for
Education ("GAFE"), yet still the OSPO gives SL funds.
Thanks,Sam
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote:
Hi Laura
I'd like to follow up on this thread :)
On 15 July 2016 at 23:39, Laura Vargas <la...@somosazucar.org> wrote:
- Microsoft (laura -1: No private software funds shall get into our accounts!)
(dave +1: money is money, and almost all the funding sources are private
companies; the Nadella Microsoft is very different to the Gates/Ballmer era and
is about as ethical as Google, Facebook, Intel, or IBM :) (Laura: don't apply,
the requirement from grants providers to resonate SL values is not negotiable
as it stands for the whole learning model we are proposing.) (Sean -1: No point
adding Microsoft or Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to this list.) (Dave: You
assert your own values as "SL values", but the observable behaviour of SL and
OLPC is not consistent with them. What do you see as the difference between
Google and Microsoft? Why does SL take Google's money?)
How does Google resonate with SL values more than Microsoft?
CheersDave
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