Interesting happenings! Enjoy! ;-) cheers -indra.
PS. FOSS.IN/2005 (http://foss.in/2005) is the largest FOSS event organised in India, its earlier avatar for the last 5 years was named LinuxBangalore or simply LB. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Atul Chitnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Bangalore/2005 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [foss.in] Bill Gates to attempt damage control in India? Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:10:27 +0530 (IST) <humour ?> In a move that could be interpreted as an attempt to counter the impact that FOSS.IN/2005 will have on industry, government, academia and other sectors, Bill Gates of Microsoft will be in Bangalore on the 9th of December (the week after after FOSS.IN/2005) to address crowds at the Bangalore Palace, at an event organised by MAIT. The timing and location seem to make this less of a coincidence. It is reflective of measures taken in 2002, when more than $400 Million of donations and grants were announced just before that year's FOSS event - a move that backfired tremendously when the world saw this as an attempt to stifle the rising popularity of FOSS in India, turning the huge $400 Million figure into the most expensive advertising campaign *for* Linux and FOSS ever conceived and executed. The FOSS community would like to thank Mr.Gates for again helping with the publicity efforts by the FOSS community. </humour ?> -- F O S S . I N / 2 0 0 5 India's Premier FOSS Conference Nov 29 to Dec 02, 2005 http://foss.in/2005 -- Indranil Das Gupta Chief Technology Architect L2C2 Technologies -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [ Innovations that make a Difference ] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : (0)-98300-20971 WWW : http://www.l2c2.org -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
