,----[ "Dileep M. Kumar" dileep@gmx.net ] | > (TOPIC 2) A Microsoft person requests to speak with our LUG | > members at a meeting. Do the list members agree to his speaking? | > I could take a poll on this but hardly anybody responds to | > polls. So I am taking an informal go ahead on this M$ person to | > speak to our LUG. Certainly he has to adhere to the ground rules | > as pointed out by Suresh. If anybody has serious objections (that | > is they DONT want the Microsoft person to speak) regarding this | > please let me know. | | I do like to point out that in a not-so-recent interview to one of | the computer magazines in India (forgot which, might have been | PCQuest or something), Microsoft India's some-big-shot mentioned | (not in so many words) that part of their strategy in India is to | "infiltrate" the LUGs and slowly brainwash these LUGs into being | MUGs (Microsoft User Groups - pun intended :). Let us not be the | first or only LUG to fall into that trap. `---- It depends on what Microsoft wants to speak in the meeting. As long as it is related to Free Software, any one is welcome.