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Linux expos and anti-MS demos
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Chen Shapira wrote:
> > sure! who's paying for the tickets and who'll take my semestrial tests
> > for me while I'm gone? :-)
>
> Most people here should be able to convince managment to pay for this
> business related trip or you can use the money you got from the RedHat /
> VALinux IPO :-)
I wish I would have been there, damnit. my broker doesn't underwrite for
anybody. I know a guy who did very well on ANDN, he may consider joining
you! :-)
(I know he's reading this, I hope he decides to go...)
> > I don't mind equiping you with a Video8 camera and you can prepare a
>
> I'll get my own.
> But its not the same as being there...
it's more than just reading about it. we want to see the booths, send
you to do an interview about RTL in gnome and KDE 2.0... you know, news
for IGLU, stuff that matters.
> a keynote by Linus. Advocacy by Bruce Perens and ESR. Kernel hacking
> sessions all night. 4 days of pure linux fun...
> I'll bring you all penguins :-)
and slangsoft is paying too? wow...
> > I'll be happy even with that. gonna write SuSE now...
>
> Perhaps we should try for RH too? managers *respect* RedHat (They'll respect
> anything that IPO's)
I prefare rooting for the underdog. and I have a feeling SuSE will
respond faster... I also never saw free RHAT CDs at SVLUG now that I
think of it, for all the demos we were showered by SuSE and Caldera
only. I'll check.
--
Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast
"I am not convinced that they can write solid stable software. Proprietary
software is already hobbled by it's secretive cathedral nature, but Microsoft
seems to have a corner on incompetent programming as well."
-- Chris DiBona from the introduction. (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
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