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RE: FW: January IVCUG Meeting






> and seemingly-commercialized? i'd prefer to leave the LUG's 
> state as is,
> for internal meetings. commercialization is vaiable only for 
> bringing up
> events that cannot be set up in a completely vulentary 
> environment (e.g. a
> linux booth at some expo...).

I don't suggest commercialization. I suggest "proffessionality". We can
substitute in enthusiasm what we lack in commerical support. Thats what
Linux is all about (well, somewhat)

> no. you'll find it extremely hard to convert a VC++ 
> programmer into using
> linux.

agreed. the otherway around too. 
after years of programming with vi, I find it difficult using visual
anything.

> perhaps you should go quickly to the US and have fun in the LUG there.
> meet RMS et. all. i'm afraid you'll not find too many people _here_ to
> organize such events with. it's possible, it's do-able, and 
> it's been done
> several years back, but it was using the 'bought food, no beer,
> distributed speech' paradigm :P~~

Yeah, probably I am naive enough to believe that IGLU can be fun (even if I
won't see any demi-god here in the near future).

BTW, does IGLU stand for Israeli Gnu/Linux Users?

 Chen Shapira
chen@mercury.co.il
Queen Isabella where are you today?
The new Chris. Colombus is wasting away.




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