On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Avinash Sonawane <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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)? While I wonder whether supporting a FOSS event is a "noble deed", it would be nicer if you can provide examples of companies that match your definition of a proprietary product company. > 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? This of course means that you assume that the companies you list [i] do not use an FOSS stacks for their services deployment/consultancy [ii] do not contribute to any FOSS project [iii] do not see value in encouraging an ecosystem by contributing in as many forms as possible. I would be interested in understanding why you see it that way. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
