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On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 07:39 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Dennis J Perkins
<<A HREF="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</A>> wrote:
> If salespeople can provide information that people want to hear, then I
> don't have a problem. But how do we decide what is acceptable? Ask the
> group if they would like to have salespeople come in and talk about
> something?
>
In theory, you would only need to ask those who actually attend
presentations! We've had quite a bit of interest for virtualization
(-Vmware included), and that is certainly dominated at the moment by
non-free (in every sense) software. I'm a middle of the road person.
Any reasonably interesting technical presentation is worth my time.
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After reading the comments, my opinion is that we want a technical talk. If a salesman can do a reasonable job, then he can give the talk.
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