[CoLoCo] Opportunity Tuesday - BWA: "Upgrading to MS Vista or Office 2007"

[Ringo Kamens]

Guess I understand the intent of the event. I was under the impression that
it was a Microsoft promotional event but upon reviewing it I see I was
wrong. Looks you all have it under control. Just for the record though,
Binary Freedom activist crashed a Vista promotional party and it went really
well.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On Nov 26, 2007 12:53 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:33:50AM -0500, Ringo Kamens wrote:
> > Why learn about the competition when you can crash the party? Fight
> Microsoft
> > and distribute copies of free software. Direct action gets the goods.
>
> It isn't Microsoft that is speaking or meeting, it is "potential"
> Ubuntu users, documentors and trainers.
>
> If you really want to "crash the party" I'd ask that you not do it the
> name of Ubuntu....  Leaves a bad taste in peoples' mouths.
>
> If you don't want to hear what they have to say, you can sit and hack
> free software or just leave.  But I prefer to know what people are
> saying locally about Vista, and politely pointing out issues if they
> don't.
>
> But I did suggest handing out disks - that would be the main point.
>
> I just think this would be among the worst of places to make a scene.
> We want NCAR to be on our side, and invite us to give talks....
>
> None of that rules out demonstrating about monopolists on their own
> turf, but again, there are plenty of better groups to sponsor that
> than Ubuntu LoCos I think.
>
> -Neal
>
> > Comrade Ringo Kamens
> >
> > On Nov 26, 2007 12:20 AM, Andrew < keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >     Sounds interesting and fun. I'd like to go, but I'd probably need a
> ride
> >     here from Loveland.
> >
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