It's a great video, IF you're interested in the history of Open Source and seeing those famous nerds (err, gnurdz ;^)... I don't think HP produced it (RevolutionOS, anyway -- don't know much about this particular DVD), they seem to be distributing it as a gimmick, a method of reaching out to the community... here's my experiential proof on that:
I filled out the web form last eve, after seeing the post on the list last night, and today I got a call from my friendly HP rep. He wanted to make sure the information I entered was correct, and spelled out everything letter-by-letter to verify it with me. Very helpful, almost eerily so for a give-away... I continued to talk with him, since we are a linux-powered shop here, and talked to him for a bit about our business needs and that we've been enjoying Dell servers, and he said that HP is "the only one-stop Linux shop". What a nice line!! Wonder what he really meant by that... any HP reps lurking here??? ciao, Ben "Spam is such an ugly word -- let's call it "outreach"... PS - I wonder if the DVD has any added scenes, maybe a Making Of bit? Is it encoded in macrovision? CSS? region-coded? On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 23:46, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:06:29PM -0800, Roger wrote: > > Looks like HP is giving away Revolutions-OS DVD: > > http://66.34.91.50/Clients/hp/index.html > > Has anyone actually seen this? Is it actually worth watching? Somehow HP > does not strike me as being extremely geek friendly. We are talking, > after all, about the combined DEC, Compaq, HP corporate entity who fired > Bruce Perens because he was too vocal in his geekiness. > > -- > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- Ben Barrett SysAdmin counterclaim Phone: 541.484.9235 Fax: 541.484.9193 _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
