NO TO ["Craig Flannagan" <craigfla-0li6OtcxBFEsanCfOy2h3g at public.gmane.org Microsoft Canada group

[Paul King]

In case anyone is taking votes, I am against MS showing up as well. I agree 
that we are so awash in terms of the number of ways that MS could get their 
message to us, that you could only not get their message if you made a 
conscious choice not to listen.

I also agree that their best strategy is to make this a media event, since that 
would protect them from heckling. The media makes it look like a circus, the 
point is lost, and Microsoft wins.

I don't think they care at all about us. It was evident in the letter Flannagan 
(or one of MS's PR flacks) wrote. In the letter, they seemed to be utterly 
ignorant about us. 

Now, if we were invited to the MS campus for a presentation of some kind, then 
I would be less cranky about it. People would show up if they wanted to, and it 
would be open to other non-linux people. Maybe some of us would even bother to 
attend. And TLUG time is not wasted that way.

Paul King

> NO-NO-NO
> 
> What benefit could we possibly have from this?
> 
> Most of us are very angry at MS. And we would show it. To their advantage.
> 
> They would have a media event on out hands that would put us all in a bad 
> light.
> 
> We have nothing to gain from this. Why would we ever talk with a salesman 
> anyway?
> 
> Duncan
> 
> ========
> 
> On March 27, 2004 07:02 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:55:35PM -0500, G. Matthew Rice wrote
> >
> > > So, should we say yes?
> >
> >   NO, NO, 2^10 times NO !
> >
> >   They'll probably send a slick public speaker, the type that can talk
> > circles around you when you go into a debate arguing that 1 + 1 = 2, and
> > he takes the opposing side.  They'll also be totally unflappable whilst
> > some people in the audience will get pissed off and very rude.  The
> > linux community will get bad PR and MS will get sympathy out of this.
> 
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