posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:56 AM
by
andrewwhitten
Ethical vista laptops?
There has been a great deal of interest on Dotnetjunkies about the Edelman
'free Vista laptops' issue.
My take is that if it is unethical to accept a laptop, is it also unethical to accept swag at a conference? The principle being that free stuff == warm fuzzy feelings?
At the moment, Vista is known only to Microsoft developers and Linux fanboys. It isn't actually a bad thing that Microsoft is trying to let people know about it.
One hopes they can think of a better strategy than “Free laptops for those cool trendy blog people!” :)