--- cragos@gmail.com wrote:

From: Leo Mauler webgiant@yahoo.com

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I'd love to man the booth again this year. I can bring in a demonstration Linux PC again this year, and I can still print off a couple hundred of the nifty non-confrontational "Five Reasons To Use Linux" brochures I brought last year.

Non-confrontational.... Does that mean we shouldn't print out copies of "Is MS Windows ready for the desktop?"

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/47221/index.html

Hone it down to its essence, and it'd make an attention getting banner. Some of the attention might even be positive.

While I'm as up for M$ bashing as anyone, Linux can stand on its own without negative attacks on M$. I forget who told me (or possibly where I read) that time spent bashing M$ is time you could have spent telling people about additional benefits of Linux and FOSS. ITEC is only five hours on Wednesday and four hours on Thursday, and some attendees have conference passes and will only give us a few minutes between lectures.

Also, if ITEC "strategic partner" booths are as small as they were last year (four groups sharing one 10x20 booth), we only really have room for one large banner or sign, in addition to the main "KCLUG" banner, and I think we'd rather keep the message focused on Linux.

Finally, the article you link to repeatedly refers to downloading pirated versions of M$ Windows as relatively minor infringements of the law. One section even refers to BitTorrent as the "M$ Windows Package Manager". M$ already has a concerted effort to condemn Linux, FOSS, and GNU as "destroying intellectual property rights", and quoting that article would only strengthen the M$ smear campaign against Linux.

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