[kwlug disc.] Corporate/proprietary presentations

[Paul Nijjar]

In the past, we have had KWLUG presentations from vendors telling us
about their products. Recently VMWare demoed their stuff, and before
that Novell and even Microsoft came by to talk about their products. 

We have also had presentations that were Linux-related but not
necessarily Open-Source oriented: for example the IOAnywhere
presentation, and even Lori's demo room talk (which used VMware as the
underlying technology). 

How do we feel about commercial product and/or non-FLOSS
presentations? Did we like them? Did we feel they were appropriate and
effective for the group? 

I'm not trying to draft a rulebook, but I am interested in knowing
what the KWLUG population thinks. From time to time we do get requests
from organizations (large and small) to do product-oriented
presentations and/or talk about non-FLOSS stuff. 

- Paul



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