On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 09:58, Reuven M. Lerner wrote: > >>>>> "Ira" == Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ira> anyone been there and cares to share any news and views they > Ira> collected? how was GBY's talk about Hamakor? > > I was there. I thought that GBY's talk was quite good, although (a) > he was the final speaker, (b) he was cut off due to time constraints, > (c) he was too Stallman-like for my taste, and (d) he didn't talk very > much (if at all) about Hamakor -- but that might have been because of > time constraints. >
Actually, my lecture was divided to part one: Free Software and Open SOurce & the Internet (part 2). Part two being the part I gave AFETR I was told my time ran out you can understand the problem... But I take it as a compliment, never the less :-) > Overall, I was happy and impressed by the attendance at the > open-source session. The representatives from Sun and the government > both talked about the need for competition; GBY was the only one who > really spoke about the "free software" world view, versus the "open > source" world view. Yes, I was the only one that tried to say something about why, for heaven sake, this Free or Open or whatever software thing CREATES competetion instead of it being just "We are not Microsoft" kind of talk. At least that's what I like to think... > The fact that open-source software was a major topic of discussion at > the conference is a good sign. Of course, the speaker from Sun said > that the organizers didn't know what to do with his slides, because > they came in a format other than PowerPoint... For the record, the organizing company that worked for ISOC contacted me to make sure my slides would be available in non propritery formats prior top the event(!). it could be that this was the result of their encounter of the Sun Speaker with the Germen Name. If so I guess I owe him at least that... Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours, police said." http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/10/1034061260831.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
