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| DATE | 2003-02-10 |
| FROM | Dave Williams
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Out of the Bag
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Subject: [hangout] Out of the Bag
From: Dave Williams
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It would appear that NewsForge has decide to run with the story,
including direct quotes from yourself, Richard, Bruce and Ruben, lifted
directly from the mailing lists.
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/2138247
Included is a link to Tony's organization, of which Bruce is a
participating member.
Perhaps Tony can change the title of the conference to:
"Various Source Availability Methods in Electronic Government"
or eGovOS/SS/CS -- Open, Shared and Closed, in other words.
Otherwise Mr. Stanco, Esq. and the Cyber Security Policy & Research
organization could contact Microsoft and return their check, refund
their application fee, reprint the brochures, offer an apology, and
invite them to attend as regular members of the public. In fact they
could say "You are more than welcome to ask difficult and probing
questions during the Q&A sessions after a forum. You don't even have to
represent yourselves as MS employees -- you can confront us as members
of the public!"
Sure, it would be fun to see a headline in the Post that says "Open
Source representatives successfully defend their position against
Microsoft", but if the headline were missing the last two words it would
still sound good.
Those who profess knowledge of the secret inner workings of Federal
politics may be smarter than we know. Imagine if they actually want a
Fair Use protest! Mr. Stanco could be sitting at his desk, fingers
tented, and in his best Montgomery Burns voice say, "Yes, we'll make the
Microsoft people look like fools on the inside and the extremists look
silly on the outside! Then the government will realize we're the
natural choice to deal with -- rational, agreeable people. Excellent!"
- Dave
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New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
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