<quote who="Brent Wallis"> > Excellent....but I would like to suggest that it is very important that MS > state their reasons for attendance _before_ the event. > > A large corp such as MS does not decide one day to attend LUGs without > having a really good reason.
A large 'corp' doesn't have a singular focus or decision-making capability. They had some folk coming out here from their Open Source office (who I have met), so made the approach. Good on them. It's not like they *need* to stick their head in the lion's mouth. Here's an idea: Engage! It's not like sticking our collective head in the sand is going to achieve anything useful (apply liberally to topical issues such as patents, OOXML, standards in general, etc). - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 "I'm offering you my body, and you're offering me semantics." - Caitlin, Clerks -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
