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:NewsForge: Anger Spews Over Microsoft Appearance at Yet Another Open Source Event
NewsForge: Anger Spews Over Microsoft Appearance at Yet Another Open Source Event
Feb 10, 2003, 20 :30 UTC (13 Talkback[s]) (9273 reads)

(Other stories by Tina Gasperson)

"Now that some people in the Free Software community have discovered Microsoft's Shared Source guru Jason Matusow is slated to speak at the Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S.and EU conference, they are gunning for the show's organizer.

"Members of the New York Linux Scene (NYLXS), a mega-group that includes NYLUG, LXNY, and NYFAIRUSE, believe a company whose core values are antithetical to Open Source should not be allowed to promote itself during a gathering dedicated to Open Source software. And they blame the organizer of the event, Tony Stanco. They're even discussing plans to stage a protest at the conference in March.

"In 1999 Stanco was a senior attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission. He became enamored with Free Software and started FreeDevelopers.net in 2000. The premise of FreeDevelopers was that 'the community is the company.' Stanco wanted to see that Free Software developers would be paid for their work and he intended to make that happen by securing grants and other funds in sponsorship of worthy development projects..."

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These are the same guys that tell you ho ...   Get over it!   
Steve Wilson
Feb 10, 2003, 21:04:24
 
so leave them alone.  Let them speak.  W ...   MS is very capable of digging their own grave ...   
George Mitchell
Feb 10, 2003, 21:31:10
 
These are the same guys that tell you ho ...   Re: Get over it!   
TM
Feb 10, 2003, 21:51:30
 
MS is irrelavant at any and all open sof ...   MS is irrelevant   
anon
Feb 10, 2003, 22:30:42
 
>>"Inviting them is simply weakness; mor ...   an act of desperation   
hindenburg
Feb 11, 2003, 00:56:33
 
OSI...Just make sure all the companies/i ...   Very easy answer...   
Matt
Feb 11, 2003, 03:44:39
 
Having your greatest enemy inside your g ...   be strong   
MikeFM
Feb 11, 2003, 06:29:28
 
Incredible all the responses about "bein ...   Get rid of them   
PCR
Feb 11, 2003, 12:19:50
 
It would be a strong statement of protes ...   Golden opportunity   
JJS
Feb 11, 2003, 18:34:28
 
> Hmmmm....I am confused.  Given that th ...   Re: an act of desperation   
Scott Carr
Feb 11, 2003, 19:54:35
 
> "If Microsoft has nothing to offer ope ...   Re: Re: Get over it!   
TJ Miller jr
Feb 11, 2003, 22:08:06
 
...or perhaps fungal rather than viral ( ...   This Shows the Viral Nature of Microsoft   
Chris Booth
Feb 12, 2003, 01:42:37
 
Actually this is exactly what they expec ...   Re: Re: an act of desperation   
George Mitchell
Feb 12, 2003, 03:31:21
 
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