On 07-Feb-07, at 5:24 PM, Anupam Jain wrote: >> hold that doing so is the biggest danger to the development of >> software. So the analogy is exact. > > Wouldn't you call making money from software being "in the software > business"?
making money how? that is the question. I make money buying and selling shares and the money i make depends on my knowledge of the share market. You make money buying and selling shares and the money you make depends on manipulating the market and insider trading. Are we in the same business? > > Ok let me put it this way - I also make money from creating software, > it's the sole way I earn my daily b & b. The company I work for very > much treats it like a commodity and I am not against that viewpoint. > Would you (if it were up to you) bar me from attending LA events in > the future? Ask anyone around me and they would tell you how much of a > Linux-head I am, selling FOSS's virtues to the slightest of receptive > ears. Isn't my interest in the Linux community enough to make me a > part of it? I wouldnt bar you - because there is some interest in foss/oss. But i would bar you if one of your main aims was to crush foss and oss > > It really isn't a comfortable argument for me, comparing myself with > MS the-evil-one. But if this LUG boycotts a Linux event being > organised by a company actively promoting Linux just because MS was > allowed to make an appearance and put forward it's views, I have a > right to be appalled. If something sneaky and underhanded took place > which compromised the LA agenda, let us know what exactly it was. > Otherwise don't spread FUD. not a question of MS being 'allowed to make an appearance and put forward its views'. They were invited in and given top billing - solely for monetary gain. And slipped in sneakily and in an underhand way - if the organisers were proud of what they did, how come they didnt boldly announce it? They flooded all lug lists with any number of announcements anyway. Microsoft has no business in a foss/oss/ linux meet. And so-called organisers who want to call their meets foss/oss/linux have no business inviting microsoft. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ 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]/
