On 14/01/2008, at 3:52 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 11:59 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Good will is not coming to a LUG meeting and pushing microsoft's
agenda.
Good will is doing something that costs Microsoft and benefits
Linux and
FOSS far more than it benefits Microsoft.
100% agreed. If they don't back this up with something of
substance, the whole
visit would have been a waste of everyone's time.
At the very least, this is an opportunity to have them visit our
turf, on our
own terms, and force them to respond to everything we throw at
them. Lab rats
spring to mind :)
I really don't think that that is how it will pan out. The folk being
proposed to visit are what, 10? 20? reporting levels down from the
leaders of the company.
I can think of few things in the IT sector less interesting to me
than a
visit from a MS marketroid. Get a MS leader in the door, and thats a
different thing.
I would take it as an opportunity to hear from and talk to a
representative of the market leader. The conversation doesn't have
to be directly related to open source software in order to benefit
the OSS community. If some of the attendees come away with a new
concept or idea that they can work with through OSS, it will have
been worth it.
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