[wellylug] MicrosoftNZ at WellyLUG?

[Pete Black]

Interesting... i can't wait for the sling a bit of Linux  
licensing-related FUD and then refuse to talk about Microsofts own  
licensing shortcomings with the  'sure, we could talk about <insert  
downright mean and evil Microsoft action of spurious legality here>  
now, but i'd rather discuss it over a cold beer' routine....

To be fair i've met Mr. Roberts before, and he comes across as a mostly  
nice guy - he did at least seem interested in the motivation around OSS  
and Linux adoption. I guess he is still curious.

-Pete

On 10/07/2005, at 9:19 AM, Ewen McNeill wrote:

> FYI, this message (below) was posted to the Usenet group nz.comp late
> last night, as <42cfbba5$1 at news.microsoft.com>.   No idea if it's true,
> but I thought y'all would at least like to be aware of the possibility.
> The message (ID) doesn't seem to have reached Google, but then that  
> seems
> to be relatively common these days.
>
> Ewen
>
> -=- cut here -=-
> Newsgroups: nz.comp
> From: "Brett Roberts" <brettrob at abcdmicrosoftwxyz.com>
> Subject: Wellington LUG meeting
> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:57:23 +1200
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> Organization: Microsoft NZ
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> NNTP-Posting-Host: 157.60.170.157
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> Message-ID: <42cfbba5$1 at news.microsoft.com>
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> 04:57:25 -0700)
> Path:  
> news.em.naos.co.nz!news.clear.net.nz!203.97.37.7!news.xtra.co.nz! 
> newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp! 
> newshub.sdsu.edu!msrtrans!news.microsoft.com!not-for-mail
> Xref: news.em.naos.co.nz nz.comp:224372
>
> Darryl Burling (a Microsoft NZ developer guru) and I (not a Microsoft  
> NZ
> developer guru) are attending the above this Monday evening. The venue  
> is
> LAN Place, Level 4, Eagle Technology House, 150 Willis Street and I
> understand the event kicks off around 7.30pm.
>
> It'd be great to put faces to some nz.comp names, have an argument or  
> three,
> agree to disagree and then put a dent in Darryl's Amex with a few  
> drinks so
> if you have a quiet evening planned please think about coming along :-)
>
> Looking forward to seeing some of you there.
>
> Brett Roberts
> Microsoft NZ
> -=- cut here -=-
>
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