[Battlemesh] Military advertising at Battlemesh

[Albert Homs i Gall]

I wouldn't concentrate in military but in advertisment. And from a more
practical point of view, time is scarce during the event and if there have
to be advertisment talks we should know in advance to use our time wisely.

Unfortunately we can't avoid our knowledge and technology to finish in "bad
guys" hands without "closing" it. It's what freedom has :S

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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