[arch-general] Any Arch Users/Developers @ Linuxtag 2010?

Sven-Hendrik Haase sh at lutzhaase.com
Mon Jun 7 19:17:48 EDT 2010


On 06/08/2010 12:45 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 18:34 -0300, Hilton Medeiros wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:16:51 -0300
>> Felipe Tanus<fotanus at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia
>>> <rafaelnominato at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>        
>>>> The purpose of Microsoft at a Open Source event? Steal code, of
>>>> course.
>>>>
>>>> -- Rafael Correia
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>         Actually, Microsoft contributes to open source [1]. Including
>>> to Linux kernel, with drivers [2]. I guess we should be thankful for
>>> they spend they time and money helping the kernel.
>>>         Personally I don't care what they true intentions are, and
>>> surely they only did this aiming on what any capitalist company would
>>> do, but the fact is that helps Linux as a software.
>>>
>>>         [ ]'s
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/
>>> [2] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/project-detail.aspx?pid=18
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Don't do that, please.
>> Defending MS for fun in a Linux mailing list won't get you anywhere.
>> You have a blog for posting your thoughts. Useless flamebait posts
>> should be motive enough for a ban. Don't even start, please.
>>      
> If that's the case criticizing Microsoft for fun should be enough to
> earn a ban. The snide comments on Microsoft's intentions are much worse
> flame-baiting than clarification on Microsoft's real (admittedly minor)
> contributions to the kernel.
>
> Linux is not a religious cult.
>
>
>    
Woah, guys stop this now. This started off starting asking whether 
anybody here attended LinuxTag 2010 and not one person replied correctly 
to the original post's question. Just stop this off-topic stuff here 
please. :(

-- Sven-Hendrik


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