Re: critics about our presence at LinuxTag 2004

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:52:01AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:06:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:28:29PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > > Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> > >
> > > >> If you let visitors go there you (LinuxTag) need to pay for it...
> > > > Well, we would not let visitors go there, just debian folk. And maybe
> > > > LinuxTag could sponsor the space to us ? After all, it would be the same
> > > > price for them either it is unused or sponsored to us.
> > >
> > > No it would not. The space would be used, so they need to pay for
> > > it. If it isnt, like this year, they dont pay for it.
> >
> > Oh, i understand. LinuxTag has to pay the owner of the building for it.
> > Ok, understood. No problem, in this case let's ask the owner (The
> > Karlsruhe city ?) for sponsorship and donation of that free space :)
> *argh* Must be very hard to understand. The "Karlsruher Messe und

Whatever.

> Kongresszentrum" short KMK is the owner of all the halls we use. They are a
> commercial organisation not some kind of wellfare from the goverment. They
> want to make money with their infrastructure not sponsor you. And the

Sure, but again the music industry analogy, they are not making money
from the empty area anyway, so sponsoring it to us is free to them.

> LinuxTag e.V. will not give you more space cause the Debian booth itself is
> one of the bigest sponsored projects. So please stop whining and accept
> that you cannot use everything like you would like to use it.
> Be happy with the solution for the hacking arear or organize a sponsor for it.

Sure, whatever, still i don't think things like this are a fatality, Not
more than software patent or the music industry claiming that every
downloaded music piece is money lost to them, notwithstanding the fact
thet if you had to pay for it, you most probably would not have bought
it anyway for lack of money. Same here. It is free space, it is unused,
we could at least, once the floor plan has been finalized, go to them
and ask if they don't want to sponsor us the unused space for a official
hacking area ? At worst, they say no.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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