re-thinking LUGs and early planning for the first Canadian LUG summit

[David J Patrick]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:38:02AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:58:28PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
> > If we just sit on our hands, those decisions will simply be
> > made by the loudest (and richest) lobbiasts. There are coMpanieS that would
> > love to see a hard vendor lock-in at federal, provincial and municipal
> > levels, and some pre-emptive actions would be prudent.
> 
> Well cost savings perhaps, or at least less money moving to microsoft's
> pockets.  I would certainly rather see money spent on local people
> providing service in customizing open source software, than see people
> just throw more money into microsoft's pockets (where microsoft is
> defined as all the large multinational closed source software companies
> that don't give a damn about anything but their share holders profits).
me too ! and for that to happen we need to... stay home and write drivers?
> > You could be right Lennart, and thanks for getting the discussion ball
> > rolling.
> 
> I kept quiet before because I didn't see any point being negative, but
> if you go pinging people then you deserve what you get right? :)
right ! and thanks !
djp
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