If it is an official request, then I think a counter-request is in order.
We can definitely request that we will present FSF ideals to M$ engineers. If they agree, then on balance, I think it is a victory for us. Otherwise they will stop pestering us.
Krishna
--- "Frederick Noronha (FN)" fred@bytesforall.org wrote:
Re the request by Microsoft to speak at the Hyderabad usergroup on DotNet, I think a similar topic was presented at LinuxBangalore in 2002 or 2003.
I wonder how someone like RMS would respond to such a development, which seems to me like an 'embrace and extend' style of combatting GNU/Linux. FN
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