Hi, I would request you to give us a day to revert with our side of the story. We are right now in the middle of 2 mega events (LinuxAsia and EFY Awards)--so please bear with us for not commenting on this issue in detail.
We appreciate feedback from the community both +ve and -ve but these claims of "greed" and "money" are definitely very demotiavting. Yes, EFY Group is a commercial organisation, but for us the growth of Open Source and Linux is as important as for anyone else on this list, afterall LINUX For You's bread and butter comes from there. Regards, Rahul Chopra Member FOSII and Editor, LINUX For You -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Openlx Linux Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:50 PM To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list Subject: Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007 On 1/31/07, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the Economic Times (at Bangalore) today, there is an article on page > 6 titled "MS takes linux world by storm" > > """ > When asked about its participation in Linux Asia, Microsoft said that > the company will try to educate clients and communicate about its new > stance towards open source. Mr Radhesh Balakrishnan, director, platform > strategy, Microsoft, told ET, "Open source software is turning > commercial and commercial software is becoming more open to open source. > We believe that interoperability between the two is the way to the > future. People have created a myth in the minds of clients that the > world can work only either on open source. Rather than being carried > over by rhetoric, clients should rather look at lowering TCO (total cost > of ownership). According to a Frost & Sullivan study, Windows offers > 15.9% lower TCO than Linux on the server side.'' > """ > > > It is quite obvious what their point of participating in the event is > about. I don't understand how a company which doesn't contribute to > Linux is any positive/constructive way, can be allowed to participate in > such an event. What is the criteria for participating in this apparently > Linux event? > > Conversely, is there any way a Linux company can participate in an > Microsoft promoting event and talk about the virtues of Linux? > > > - Sandip Obviously, people who run the show are giving-in to the thing called "money". The Linux community needs to take serious note of it. Such things will take the event away from its known objectives. -- Linux - Transforming Lives ! _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
