-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [TwinCLinG] Re: Sample survey on Open Source Software, meeting etc. Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:43:45 -0400 From: Binand Sethumadhavan binand@gmail.com Reply-To: ilughyd@yahoogroups.com To: ilughyd@yahoogroups.com References: 1098285160.902.93413.m12@yahoogroups.com 38399.172.16.2.253.1098337868.squirrel@uohmail.uohyd.ernet.in
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:21:08 +0530 (IST), Dr. Atul Negi atulcs@uohyd.ernet.in wrote:
(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.
Binand
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