[kwlug disc.] Corporate/proprietary presentations

Adam Glauser adamglauser at wlualumni.ca
Thu Apr 10 12:23:36 EDT 2008


unsolicited wrote:
> The vmware presentation is an example of where they came close to the 
> edge, but not by very much. They admitted they are but one of a few 
> solutions, they answered how to run in a FOSS environment (e.g. they 
> were clear that Debian, CentOS, and others, could be used to run it), 
> there are a number of free aspects to it (e.g. vmserver and vmplayer), 
> and they provided context for the quite astonishing depth of their 
> entire solution.

FWIW, I don't think that the cost of a product has bearing on whether it 
is valid to present at KWLUG.  The relevance to FLOSS is the important 
item in my book.


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