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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">According to the RedHat folks M$ has become a kinder, gentler behemoth since Balmer left.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Personally I’m more concerned about all the people that use proprietary Apple hardware and software that don’t seem to notice the incongruity of championing
them over M$ while still lauding OSS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Back before M$ created NT with the stated intention of replacing UNIX I was always more a fan of M$ over Apple because at least with M$ OS you got a choice
of hardware. Funny thing is they never did kill UNIX but did kill Netware. (Linux oddly enough seems to be doing more to kill UNIX but that’s more of an evolution than a replacement to me.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">These days I have Windows laptops and servers, Linux desktops and servers, an Apple iPad (a gift – I don’t pay Apple for anything because to me their proprietary
nature is still an evil) and an Android phone. One good thing about competition is they all keep innovating to try to stay ahead of the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 07, 2015 10:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] [Fwd: Advertising on ale.org]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>I don't like the idea of dues for ALE.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Corp sponsorship will have a corp message. If EFF wants to buy a round of drinks, I'm ok with that. Ditto for Redhat, Suse, Cannonical, and some others. If Microsoft wanted to buy a round of drinks and talk about opening up closed software, that would be
interesting and a bit awkward.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Aug 7, 2015 8:51 AM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since recruiting membership is getting harder for Linux user groups, I think charging dues may be counter-productive. I can’t really think of any Linux group (that I have been associated with) doing this.<br>
As for corporate sponsors, Red Hat (and SUSE) would want to skew everything toward their distro for sure…<br>
Just my $0.02 worth…<br>
--<br>
Allen Beddingfield<br>
Systems Engineer<br>
The University of Alabama<br>
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