[TriLUG] META - Red Hat Censorship? (was: TriLUG Venue)

Mark Fowle mfowle at adeliesystems.com
Mon Aug 13 16:54:27 EDT 2007


Freedom of speech is only good until it effects the bottom line - then
the gloves come off and a shift away from the center begins --



On 8/13/07, Mark Turner <markt at siteseers.net> wrote:
> Matt Frye wrote:
> > On 8/13/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> >> What about the Google speaker that they did not want to have at RHT HQ?
> >>
> >
> > It was actually Red Hat who refused to allow a Google speaker.  They
> > don't want what is effectively a Google recruiting event in their
> > building.
> >
> > MPF
> >
> Whoa, whoa, whoa! Red Hat vetoed a speaker from Google?  Isn't Red Hat
> supposed to be a company that values freedom of speech?
>
> Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
>
> Mark Turner
> www.markturner.net
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