[Moin-user] Microsoft advertisements

[Rick Vanderveer]

(Finally getting around to replying to an old topic)

I can understand how MS advertisements could disturb some purists.  But to
me, I see like this:

 - As we all know, Microsoft has publicly denounced open source. Yet, here
they are [indirectly] supporting open source thru funding of
infrastructure.  We all know that servers, bandwidth, etc, doesn't pay for
itself.  In my mind, why not get MS to pay for it?  ;-)  Imagine if this
happened in the business-world, where you could somehow con your competitor
to pay for some of your development-- that would be a major coup!
Microsoft, in effect, is helping support their competition (which is
deliciously ironic).

 - There's a pretty low risk of anyone (at least on this list, I'm guessing)
of anyone actually following up on this link.  I didn't even notice them
until you pointed it out (and I suspect I'm not alone).  I guess my eye's
automatically stop at the ----- line.  :-)


So, switch mailing lists servers doesn't bother me one way or another.  But
I say, why not leave it here and have MS at least pay for it?  At least it's
free!  :-)

-Rick

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Thomas Waldmann <tw-public at gmx.de> wrote:

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