[Battlemesh] Military advertising at Battlemesh

[Michel de Geofroy]

I believe in freedom of speech but I do not support the industry of death
or petrol. I came to the wifi mesh as a result of the Egyptian Revolutions
needs, to help my friends in Egypt I think that says it all.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Henning Rogge <hrogge at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 17:03, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)
> <zioproto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Folks,
> >
> > I have been contacted privately by someone that works for the Dutch
> > Army, to attend a private meeting in Athens during the Battlemesh
> > days.
> > The informal meeting would be about OLSR dev team roadmap and works
> > done by this company on the OLSR code.
> >
> > I refused to attend this meeting, of course.
>
> As long as they come to talk about Mesh code and how to improve it, I
> see no problem with this.
>
> I think its much better to get some feedback and maybe code for our
> open codebase from anyone than just blocking it off.
>
> What we don't want (thats at least my perception of the last
> Battlemesh) is someone holding a talk and using it for advertising his
> commercial or military company thing.
>
> > please heads up. We are not going to tolerate people from the war
> > industry at the Battle Mesh.
>
> I am not sure how wide you define "war industry", but I think you are
> aware that I am working for a research institute that does mostly
> military projects?
>
> Henning Rogge
> --
> Steven Hawkings about cosmic inflation: "An increase of billions of
> billions of percent in a tiny fraction of a second. Of course, that
> was before the present government."
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