[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Crash the party (was: Re: Berkeley Pi: Re: Berkeley Raspberry Pi meeting March 1st -- Jam Time!)

Crash the party(?)


From: "Rick Moen" <rick@linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: Berkeley Pi: Re: Berkeley Raspberry Pi meeting March 1st -- Jam Time! 
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:06:47 -0800



It's actually just a little embarrassing to see Bay Area Linux people
venting paranoia over 'competition' and 'crashing of events' by
Microsoft.  It implies that the Bay Area Linux people in question are



(To be honest, there was a time in the 1990s when we Linux activists
routinely 'crashed' a few major Microsoft marketing events here in the
South Bay just in a spirit of good-natured rivalry, though we were
careful to be extremely well behaved.  Look up 'Silicon Valley Tea
Party' for a noted example.  We were basically just better at marketing
than they were.)


Credit where credit is due?
Despite all the various things Microsoft has (and hasn't) done, attempted,
etc.  Microsoft does (at least sometimes) significantly contribute to
open source ... sometimes even Linux.  Intents and motives might be another
question, but regardless ...

And, Microsoft folks "crashing" Linux events?  I think that's really mostly
just a non-issue.  In all my years going to many [L]UG meetings, among the
Linux(/Unix/Ubuntu/...) meetings, I'm pretty sure only and exactly once
did some Microsoft employee come (at least that I was ever aware of).
It was no big deal, I don't recall the reason(s) they were particularly
interested to come, but they did.  It was probably a BUUG.org meeting, or
maybe BALUG.org - or less likely - BerkelelyLUG.com - it was quite a number
of years ago (I think well over a decade).  Anyway, no biggie, everyone was
civil, really a non-issue.  As at least most such [L]UG meetings are
approximately "public" events, within reason most anyone can come.  And
if they behave reasonably (almost all do almost all the time), they even
get to stay.

So, for practical purposes, I think such "party crashing" is (almost?)
entirely a non-issue ... at least based upon all I've seen thus far in
practice.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BerkeleyLUG" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to berkeleylug+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/berkeleylug/20200308173856.17864rrl6yx2b12c%40webmail.rawbw.com.