On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Avinash Sonawane <rootkea at gmail.com> wrote:
1) To have a proprietary product company as a sponsor of FOSS event is
it morally right? I mean there will be banners, flyers of that
proprietary company all over the venue. In an event we are promoting
FOSS and on a venue we are promoting/marketing proprietary product
company. Isn't it contradictory behaviour?
But if we deny the sponsorship aren't we depriving that proprietary
company of doing a noble deed (of supporting a FOSS event)?
2) What about proprietary *service* company? I mean the one which
serves it's client with say system administration or building a dbms
system (which is closed source suppose) for the client e.g. Infosys
(http://www.infosys.com/), Wipro (www.wipro.com), Persistent
(www.persistent.com) etc. Is it something different with the
proprietary service company compared to proprietary product company?