[Fwd: Re: [Ilugc] [Fwd: [Fsf-friends] Re: DotNet]]
Sandip Bhattacharya
sandip@lug-delhi.org
Wed Oct 27 23:58:27 IST 2004
Ramanraj K wrote:
> My two cents. If someone from MS is going to talk about an MS only
> product or MS only tools that are not OSS (and have no direct
> relevance to the lug), however technical it might be, I think the
> answer should be NO. Same goes for a Mac. IMHO, that is completely
> off-topic for a LUG. LUGs are not only-tech-groups. There are
> certain philosophies and common sense rules that we do follow.
We have had quite loud discussions in this matter at ILUG-Delhi. The
general consensus is that private sponsorship is acceptable, there will be
no opportunity for any vendor to talk about proprietary products.
Talking about .Net is a bit into the gray area though, because it has some
relevance to the Mono community. However, a condition can be put, that the
only implementations that can be demonstrated, would be using FOSS
toolkits, and not using Visual Studio IDE or the MS command line .Net
compiler. I personally believe this is a reasonable condition, which wont
let other people complain that we are "prejudiced to the company".
- Sandip
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