[nzlug] Red Hat Open Source Symposium 2006

[Craig Box]

>> Because it's a commercial vendor trying to sell you their stuff.
> 
> I still fail to see why you should expect free handouts just because
> they are commercial. I currently work in a company that is almost
> entirely based around free software, but is very much a commercial
> company and we don't give everything away to sell our wares.   
>
> Its a very childish and naive attitude to have.

So, your sales people charge your customers by the hour? 

Open Source or not, this is marketing.  Companies pay all sorts of money and
offer all sorts of junkets to try and make them buy their stuff.  Red Hat
have previously done a free "come buy our stuff" roadshow.  I'm unsure how
this event is different to that.  Novell aren't charging people to attend
theirs: http://www.novell.com/linux/tour/

Craig