ian and jijo, i strongly believe that greed drives this person to blurt out pointless and baseless accusations on you guys. as a member of this mailing list, i would like to thank you for all the things you are doing for the FOSS community in our country. we need more of people like you and none of the "crabs".
On 9/23/05, ian sison (mailing list) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://linux.org.ph/ga2005/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > "-- Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:10:38 +0800 reply > I nominate Loreto Casala jr and Gabriel Briones III .. Kahit sino huwag > lang > QSR.... PLUG = QSR ngayon eh... <expletive deleted>" > > > Speaking as one who's company was publicly attacked by this Wiki post, I > feel that I have to respond. > > PLUG is NOT QSR, nor is QSR = PLUG. In the PLUG board, it is only me and > Marvin who are from QSR, and we are hardly > a majority. All decisions the PLUG board makes are democratically voted on > by the board itself. QSR does not dictate anything to the board in any > official nor unofficial capacity. > > If there is a misconception that QSR has monopolized providing for the many > requirements of PLUG, then this should be cleared up now. > > The resources that QSR allegedly "donates" to PLUG does not come from QSR > "the company". They come from the blood, sweat, resources and tears of the > people inside QSR. > > The server that hosts the web site, and PLUG mailing lists and archives is > funded by Jijo Sevilla out of his own pocket, NOT QSR's. > > The venue "aka QSR Office" that hosts the PLUG meetings is MY OWN > HOME/OFFICE, not QSR's. The resources > used by the facilities as well as the internet bills are financed by ME, > not > QSR. And no -- QSR does not give me a monthly paycheck. My own clients do, > and it hardly comes monthly. > > We offer these resources and our TIME when no one else would, and we > offered > them in in good faith. We do not brag about it, we just do it. So if there > are any accusations that are to be made, accuse me and Jijo. Accuse us for > volunteering our resources to serve the community in the hope that we can > give back what Linux and Open Source has given us. Do NOT accuse QSR. We > try > to make an honest living just like the rest of you. > > That being said, I would really like to challenge the individual who posted > this blind item to SPEAK UP and raise the issues PUBLICLY so that we can > address each other on the basis of ISSUES and not just baseless, > unsupported > accusations. Your silence and anonymity on this means you simply do not > have > any evidence to back up your claims. > > We are supposed to be a community, let's not fragment into groups of > political alliances. Our agenda is and has always been to push for the > adoption of open source. If we are to rally around something, let's rally > around open source and recognize that we need to help each other. > > Iilan na nga lang tayo mag sisiraan pa tayo. > > > Ian Sison > VP and Technical Director > QSR > > -- amdg registered linux user #383907 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
