Re: [Fsfe-uk] Fwd: OSS Watch inaugural conference, 11 December 2003

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Andrew Savory wrote:

> The idea of OSS Watch is to provide a 
> balanced and neutral source of information about Open Source software 
> to the Higher Education community

OK, in that case it would seem reasonable to assume that those at the 
event will be offering Open Source solutions for the education 
communities.

>  - and to be balanced you must 
> recognise that alternatives exist, and that for some people, a 
> proprietary software package may be of more use. For this reason and 
> many more, it makes a lot of sense to have the biggest vendor of 
> proprietary software at the event.

What Open Source solutions do they offer?

Personally I feel it's disingenious to suggest that it's appropriate to 
have those who not only don't provide such solutions there but even worse 
to have those who actively seek to prevent Open Source implementations and 
who are even trying to make Open Source illegal.

It seems analogous to the US inviting Saddam Hussein to take part in the 
Iraq governing council. ;)

Jason Clifford
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