<quote who="Steven D'Aprano"> > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:23:11 am Jeff Waugh wrote: > > It's not like they *need* to stick their head in the lion's mouth. > > Well, actually, if Microsoft want to be taken seriously in the Open > Source community, they do.
Yeah, this is true -- I think some folks within Microsoft been attempting this for a while now, but the massive trust vacuum and aggressive actions elsewhere in the company [1] have done them absolutely no favours at all. So, there are events and circumstances that I would not (and in some cases, did not) support Microsoft involvement -- such as major, public community and industry events, where the whole tittilation factor would just demolish our message -- but having a few Microsoft people at a LUG meeting simply doesn't have the same kind of risk or negative cost/benefit. We can all agree that there's no reason to trust Microsoft right now... But it doesn't follow that we should completely avoid or ignore them. - Jeff [1] Ber, well, Bill Hilf was being a bit of a dork even before he left the Open Source group. -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 Corporate extortionism. Economic contortionism. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
