Optimizing Linux Advocacy Efforts

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 12, 2003 @09:13AM from the million-penguin-march dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Open source advocate Tony Stanco, of the George Washington University Cyberspace Policy Institute has been getting flamed for allowing Microsoft reps to speak at an Open Source in government conference he's putting on next month. Today, in a commentary on NewsForge, Tony responds to the flamers. He says, "Leave it to the kooks in the community to make Microsoft look sympathetic." Is he right? Should we be willing to listen to what Microsoft has to say? Aren't open minds important to open source?" Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

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Hi! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 09:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

.GNU anyone?
OT vegetarian by DrSkwid · 2003-02-12 10:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Vegetarian is derived from the latin
vegetus -a -um [lively , vigorous, fresh]

perhaps you mean
herbivore n. An animal that feeds chiefly on plants.

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