Re: eGovOS conference in D.C.; I'm not attending that

[Chalu Kim]

With Bush railing about "running the government more like private corporation" 
and "lean and mean" campaigns in the governement, government employees must 
be hunkering to keep their heads out of the way.

You know the Japanese saying. "You must pound the nail head sticking out." It 
must be weird to be in the government. 

Nevertherless, I think your rhetoric is good. Mincing words won't get you far, 
I agree.

I see different folks re-positioning themselves according to their 
associations, let's think about who do we serve and why?

I think it is fair to say we need to play with these forces and still stay 
clear. It sounds like Zen practice.

"Grasshopper!"

On Monday 10 February 2003 05:34 am, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     We don't want the headlines to be "Academic freedom is OK for
> controversial racists but not for Microsoft,"  "Whatever happened to the
> first amendment -- George Washington University charged with bias against
> unpopular views at conference,"  "Microsoft is right, Free Software is
> UnAmerican charge Microsoft supporters in Congress after Microsoft denied
> right to speak at free/open-source software conference,"
>
> Advocates must never be timid about what their opponents will say
> about them.  That way lies fatal weakness.  These accusations would be
> easily refuted, and we will refute them.
>
>                                           "Government employees ordered to
>     withdraw from conference committee and drop involvement with Free
> Software after controversy over rejection of Microsoft as speaker at
> conference."
>
> If they did, we could use it to great effect: the US government
> insists that free software events must offer a platform to a convicted
> corporate felon.  It would play especially well overseas where people
> increasingly hate the US government for many reasons.
>
> I wish that the opposition inside the US government were so overt.
>
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