Dear Arch users and developers,

will any of you be at the Linuxtag conference and expo in Berlin
<http://www.linuxtag.org> later this week? Would you like to meet?
Myself, I am an Archlinux newbie,

Best Regards,
Mathias

Hi,
I heard this year Microsoft is one of the sponsors for the event. I
can only guess what they are doing at Linux/Open Source event.

Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
www.gaurishsharma.com


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Mathias Huber <mhuber@linux-magazin.de> wrote:
> Dear Arch users and developers,
>
> will any of you be at the Linuxtag conference and expo in Berlin
> <http://www.linuxtag.org> later this week? Would you like to meet?
> Myself, I am an Archlinux newbie,
>
> Best Regards,
> Mathias
>
>

The purpose of Microsoft at a Open Source event? Steal code, of course.

-- Rafael Correia


2010/6/7 Gaurish Sharma <contact@gaurishsharma.com>
>
> Hi,
> I heard this year Microsoft is one of the sponsors for the event. I
> can only guess what they are doing at Linux/Open Source event.
>
> Regards,
> Gaurish Sharma
> www.gaurishsharma.com
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Mathias Huber <mhuber@linux-magazin.de> wrote:
> > Dear Arch users and developers,
> >
> > will any of you be at the Linuxtag conference and expo in Berlin
> > <http://www.linuxtag.org> later this week? Would you like to meet?
> > Myself, I am an Archlinux newbie,
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Mathias
> >
> >

Hi all,

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia <rafaelnominato@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



--
Felipe de Oliveira Tanus
E-mail: fotanus@gmail.com
Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br
Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/
-----
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:16:51 -0300
Felipe Tanus <fotanus@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia
> <rafaelnominato@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.

Excerpts from Felipe Tanus's message of 2010-06-07 23:16:51 +0200:
> Hi all,
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia <rafaelnominato@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

I seem to remember that those drivers are really badly maintained.
And opensource is a term that can have a broad range of meanings, in the
case of microsoft it usually means "You can look at the code, nothing
else."
--
Regards,
Philipp

--
"Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 18:34 -0300, Hilton Medeiros wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:16:51 -0300
> Felipe Tanus <fotanus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia
> > <rafaelnominato@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.

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@gmail.com> wrote:



Hi all,

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia
<rafaelnominato@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

On 06/07/2010 03:38 PM, Mathias Huber wrote:

Dear Arch users and developers,

will any of you be at the Linuxtag conference and expo in Berlin
<http://www.linuxtag.org> later this week? Would you like to meet?
Myself, I am an Archlinux newbie,

Best Regards,
Mathias



I will attend and I'll even be an exhibitor. Meet me at the linux-gamers
booth.
I'll be there with at least another Archer. I'll probably be there all
the time.


-- Sven-Hendrik

Dear Sven-Hendrik,

> I will attend and I'll even be an exhibitor. Meet me at the linux-gamers
> booth.
> I'll be there with at least another Archer. I'll probably be there all
> the time.

great! I'll drop by, probably on Friday.

Looking forward to seeing you :-)
Mathias