[Battlemesh] Military advertising at Battlemesh

[ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)]

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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