It's just cute to note that at the bottom of the original invitation, the
words "Microsoft Student Partner" appears :P

Microsoft? Novell? hehe

XP

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Eunice Tan Boon Luan <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I think to be fair for the "poor innocent" SMU OS3 group that organize
> this talk, leave them a room space to have this opportunity to allow
> student at least to know what are some possibilities of using open
> source in the corporate world. Perhaps in the future other parties from
> other companies can come in to share on the experiences as well. It is
> definitely not going to restrict to Novell alone.
>
> They may be the first to be there is that they are offering the package
> for the SMU students. Nevertheless it does not constrain others to enter
> and share on their viewpoint and experience if they are able to
> introduce this open source spirit and its community to people who are
> new to it. Especially to business students who are easily deceived by
> the choices available or ease of usage on proprietary over open source.
>
> I hereby would like to thanks the wonderful new committee that took over
> from us (previous exco members) and had this initiative.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eunice Tan
> Ex-CEO of SMU Open Source Software Society
> SMU School of Information System
>
>
> Stephan M. February wrote:
> > Chris Henry wrote:
> >> He's just being sarcastic that Novell is being called to give talks to
> >> open-source community after all those patents agreement what-not with
> >> Microsoft. GPLv3 is supposed to block such exclusive agreement in the
> >> future.
> >>
> >
> > In that case he should make a plackard summarizing his grievances.
> > Come up with a catchy slogan , and picket the SMU entrance, heckling
> > all who dare enter :D
> >
> > Cheers
> > Stephan "The Instigator" February
> >
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