<span>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.
<br>Comrade Ringo Kamens<br></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 26, 2007 12:53 AM, Neal McBurnett <<a href="mailto:neal@bcn.boulder.co.us">neal@bcn.boulder.co.us</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:33:50AM -0500, Ringo Kamens wrote:<br>> Why learn about the competition when you can crash the party? Fight Microsoft<br>> and distribute copies of free software. Direct action gets the goods.
<br><br></div>It isn't Microsoft that is speaking or meeting, it is "potential"<br>Ubuntu users, documentors and trainers.<br><br>If you really want to "crash the party" I'd ask that you not do it the
<br>name of Ubuntu.... Leaves a bad taste in peoples' mouths.<br><br>If you don't want to hear what they have to say, you can sit and hack<br>free software or just leave. But I prefer to know what people are<br>
saying locally about Vista, and politely pointing out issues if they<br>don't.<br><br>But I did suggest handing out disks - that would be the main point.<br><br>I just think this would be among the worst of places to make a scene.
<br>We want NCAR to be on our side, and invite us to give talks....<br><br>None of that rules out demonstrating about monopolists on their own<br>turf, but again, there are plenty of better groups to sponsor that<br>than Ubuntu LoCos I think.
<br><font color="#888888"><br>-Neal<br></font><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Comrade Ringo Kamens<br>><br>> On Nov 26, 2007 12:20 AM, Andrew < <a href="mailto:keen101@gmail.com">keen101@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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