[Battlemesh] Military advertising at Battlemesh

[Axel Neumann]

I also totally agree with Juliusz and think we should spend more attention on 
this. 
Its clear that the military has a huge interest in what we are doing. From the 
old times of open-mesh.org I remember that more that 50% of visits were coming 
from IPaddresses related to the military-commercial complex. Since we are 
following an open and free approach its probably inpossible to avoid this but 
I would appreciate any statements which strongly deprecates their 
collaboration.

It really hurts if gpl freedom is exploited as free to be used for killing.

/axel


On Freitag 25 März 2011, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:
> I agree with Juliusz. I regret I did not understand the situation on
> time to speak a couple of words about this when I was there.
> 
> I'm strongly against the industry of war.
> 
> Saverio
> 
> 2011/3/25 Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at pps.jussieu.fr>:
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > As you doubtless are aware, Andrew (Lunn, I believe) attended WBMv4 as
> > an employee of ASCOM, a company that works as a defence contractor for
> > various armies.  What is more, he gave a talk in which he openly
> > advertised military applications of mesh networking, as well as his
> > company.
> > 
> > I believe this to have been highly inappropriate.  By not interrupting
> > Andrew during his talk, we have all condoned his actions.
> > 
> > I would like to suggest that advertising for military companies should
> > not be allowed at future battlemeshes.  Should, notwithstanding my
> > suggestion, vendors of military technology be invited to give talks
> > about military technology at WBMv4 in the future, I hereby request that
> > we should be warned of that fact sufficiently in advance to decide
> > whether to attend notwithstanding or not.
> > 
> > --Juliusz
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