Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Apr 2008 20:06 UTC, submitted by melkor
"I came away from the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with mixed feelings. I mean, it's hard not to support the group that pays Linus Torvalds to spend his time continuing to lead the poster-boy project for free and open source software. But at the same time, those golden chains are my biggest concern about the Linux Foundation."
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Take your previous desktop vendor listing , none of them are part of the Linux foundation...
There was a representative of at least ZaReason attending the Linux Collaboration Summit, as well as representatives from local IT companies selling Linux products such as http://www.iycc.biz/
Is point is simple to summarize , he looked at the conference subjects and can see that desktop is not being discuss...
Then he might have missed that there were two days of Desktop Architects Meeting, bringing together representatives of free software projects like GNOME and KDE as well as people from ISVs and OEMs.
It allowed us to get up to date on what others are currently working on, identify areas where we can improve sharing of technology, exchanging contacts for better coordination or work, etc.
I agree with Joe Barr that not allowing media people looks a bit weird, but unfortunately it is not unheard of that journalists report things out of context or using skewed interpretations to generate reader interests.
While Joe Barr would likely not do this, the pure chance of something like this to happen would restrict the quality of information during the meetings as attendees would be more cautious to address problems, etc