I also think that they be allowed to talk about .Net, but on the basis of mono .Net which is a completely free (GPLed) .Net platform originally developed by Ximian (now owned by Novell).
http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html
<quote> Mono is a comprehensive open source development platform based on the .NET framework that allows developers to build Linux and cross-platform applications with unprecedented productivity. Mono's .NET implementation is based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure.
Sponsored by Novell and led by Miguel de Icaza, the Mono project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community. Mono includes both developer tools and the infrastructure needed to run .NET client and server applications.
</quote>
Regards Praveen A
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:58:27 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya
sandip@lug-delhi.org wrote:
Ramanraj K wrote:
My two cents. If someone from MS is going to talk about an MS only product or MS only tools that are not OSS (and have no direct relevance to the lug), however technical it might be, I think the answer should be NO. Same goes for a Mac. IMHO, that is completely off-topic for a LUG. LUGs are not only-tech-groups. There are certain philosophies and common sense rules that we do follow.
We have had quite loud discussions in this matter at ILUG-Delhi. The general consensus is that private sponsorship is acceptable, there will be no opportunity for any vendor to talk about proprietary products.
Talking about .Net is a bit into the gray area though, because it has some relevance to the Mono community. However, a condition can be put, that the only implementations that can be demonstrated, would be using FOSS toolkits, and not using Visual Studio IDE or the MS command line .Net compiler. I personally believe this is a reasonable condition, which wont let other people complain that we are "prejudiced to the company".
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