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:) Regards, Himanshu Anand On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Avinash Sonawane <[email protected]> wrote: > We are a bunch of hackers at Hacker's Den (http://hackersden.org) who > believe in sharing and openness. We are going to organise a FOSS event > in coming few days. But at the moment we are kinda puzzled over > sponsorship for the event. > > 1) To have a proprietary product company as a sponsor of FOSS event is > it morally right? I mean there will be banners, flyers of that > proprietary company all over the venue. In an event we are promoting > FOSS and on a venue we are promoting/marketing proprietary product > company. Isn't it contradictory behaviour? > > But if we deny the sponsorship aren't we depriving that proprietary > company of doing a noble deed (of supporting a FOSS event)? > > 2) What about proprietary *service* company? I mean the one which > serves it's client with say system administration or building a dbms > system (which is closed source suppose) for the client e.g. Infosys > (http://www.infosys.com/), Wipro (www.wipro.com), Persistent > (www.persistent.com) etc. Is it something different with the > proprietary service company compared to proprietary product company? > > Should we accept the sponsorship or deny it? > > 3) A solution? > Accepting a sponsorship from a proprietary company (product/service) > and placing a large banner at the entrance of a venue as well as on > the website saying "We do not necessarily support any of our sponsors' > products or philosophy." as a countermeasure, will work? Or is it > similar to printing "smoking is injurious to health" on cigarette > packets and continuing the cigarette production at the same time and > later on denying any responsibility saying "We warned you"? Personally > I think printing a warning on cigarette packet is a big joke; because > if you really cared for the health of society you would have stopped > the production itself. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) > PICT, Pune > http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com > > -- > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Regards Himanshu anand -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
