Hello,

This is a bit off topic but wanted to share it anyway. Think about Yahoo
before you
plan for this year.

Started the year by doing an audit on some of my accumulated login
credentials.
I realized a lot of them use my yahoo email which I noticed I actually no
longer use!
Yahoo in the news for all the wrong reasons; layoffs, product
discontinuations, CEO
woos etc. What happened to all those profit speculations? So what killed
Yahoo?

I did a search and came across this http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
I think this post albeit a bit old, nails it, with one interesting insight
being:
*Yahoo was killed because they didn't have a hacker-centric culture*

Yahoo which used OSS failed to adopt OSS. OSS and the Linux stack is more
than
downloading packages for free, its a culture. A proven successful business
model and
work paradigm. If you believe your organization is using OSS but not
adopted it watch
out 2013 may be just another bad year for you.

That said I hope a lot of the IT corps come to their senses and start
backing community.
I hope LUG flourishes this year.

Happy New Year
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