Re: Call for boycot

[Immanuel Raja Jeyaraj]

Thank you Stanley for the list. Sorry I never so it before.

I don't see there is any thing wrong in inviting M$. All this commercial
organisation will be presenting articles for their benefits that includes
RedHat also.

What I am worried is that the world will not see the real objective of
Open source (Free software) or why it exists on the first place.

As a free software (open source) users and participants we should think of
means to counter this. Is boycot the only way? If Yes, then let us do it.
But why not use this as an opportunity to make our point through. Why not
one or two of us present a paper and talk on what open source is and how
it will really benefit governments and what are the benefits of Opensource
over other models.

Immi

> At 08:22 PM 2/11/2003 +0800, Immanuel Raja Jeyaraj wrote:
>>Calling a rep from M$ to speak, there is nothing wrong. Why didn't they
>> call any one from IBM, HP, DELL who are inclined towards open-source
>> then M$ is? This really surprise me.
>
>
> The entire list of speakers is available at
> http://www.egovos.org/march-2003/agenda.html
>
> The speakers in the same category as Microsoft include:
>
> Corporate Open Source Perspectives Track
>
>  1.Jason Matusow, Microsoft, Shared Source: The Microsoft Perspective
> [Abstract]
>  2.Michael Tiemann, Red Hat,
>  3.Merry Beekman, Red Hat,
>  4.Stormy Peters, Hewlett-Packard, The Business and Economics of Linux
> and
> Open
>     Source [Abstract]
>  5.Dave Boutcher, IBM, Managing Open Source and Proprietary in one
> Organization
>     [Abstract]
>  6.Mary Ann Fisher, IBM,
>  7.K.S.(Doc) Shankar, IBM, Linux Security - What's now? What's next?
> [Abstract]
>  8.Dr. Ernest Prabhakar, Apple, Mac OS X: The Open Alternative
> [Abstract]  9.Whit Diffie, SUN, Security
> 10.Danese Cooper, SUN, OpenOffice/StarOffice/MadHatter/Liberty Alliance
> 11.Farrukh Najmi, SUN Microsystems, and Joseph Potvin, Public Works and
> Government
>     Services Canada, An Open Source ebXML Registry for eGov [Abstract]
> 12.Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle, Security
> 13.Tim Solm, DELL [Invited]
> 14.Rick Jones, Intel [Invited]
>
>
> Note that invited speakers are marked "invited" and speakers who
> submitted abstracts and got them accepted are marked "abstract."  I
> don't know if the unmarked speakers applied or were invited.  Perhaps
> they are panelists or debaters.
>
>
> Stan Klein
>
>
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