[NTLUG:Discuss] [Off-Topic] Free Software Consortium in search of Consultants and Agents in your area.

[Fred James]

I vote that it should have gone on the Jobs list, if at all.  Exposure 
to our mass media, and other sales hype, may inure us to misnomers and 
double talk, but I don't think we need to accept, or support, such.

MadHat wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 20:55, Christopher Baker wrote:
>
>>I generally don't like solicitations in my e-mail either, but this
>>certainly doesn't fit my description of spam.
>>
>>Many of the people on the list are interested in free software, and
>>there is a need for more unity in the movement. I certainly don't want
>>to discourage people from trying to organize.
>>
>>Now if he had sent this to a list dedicated to _Buffy the Vampire
>>Slayer_ or investment, I would call it spam. The author even labelled
>>the post by including the word "off-topic" at the beginning of the
>>subject.
>>
>
>If you know it is off topic why send it at all?
>
>It was an add for their business, something they are making money from,
>not a free service, not an event, and not something that is going to
>help the general users of our Linux Users Group.  I understand what you
>mean, and this might have been OK for the Jobs list, but it was very
>much SPAM.
>
>Did you read it?  It is a place for them to gain leads for their
>headhunting.  They get 20% of any monies earned and it is all about
>getting employers and job seekers together so the FSC can make money. 
>This is not about OSS, this is about a company using the name "Free
>Software" to try and harvest resumes so they can make money off of the
>"Free Software" movement and name.
>

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