On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Orlando Andico wrote:
> well, they have mari kaimo on their board. but no, i guess it's all just
> blowing smoke.
not to mention Senator Salonga.
> i mean, *ANY* one who wanted to push linux in this country would *AT
> LEAST* siguro subscribe to PLUG ano?
some people i know don't like the climate on this list. hehe
they should really stop making claims they can't back up either and if
they want to, shouldn't they be "partnering" with existing linux user
groups to really promote open source?
if they've really been around that long too, they'd have at least
mentioned Free Software Foundation somewhere... which i still feel
deserves a lot of credit.
> and (to quote that writer i
> love to hate, eric raymond, he-who-blows-his-own-horn-hardest), one can't
> really declare one's expertise in the hacker tribe, it's given by one's
> peers. i don't see bluepoint asking around before making fantastic claims.
so who's the hacker? ;)
the trouble with true hackers is a lot of 'em may be wizards with the
machine, but horrible with Public Relations. some of us should prolly
learn to spew hot air. heheh [minus the stink]
> you should see their "projects" page. scroll down to the bottom, it'll
> make you laugh. i mean, the way they claim to be "working on analyzing
> radio telescope data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week" makes them seem like
> real scientists. but if you go to the SETI rankings, you'll see that my
> colleague Paul Pongco at mozcom is at #3 in the Philippines, just by
> parking seti clients on idle machines. and any windoze luser with half a
> brain can install seti on his win9x box and "do hard science."
true enough... now what i'd really like to see is what "real" open source
programs they've turned out and where those projects are that their
students should be churning out.
now where the hell are those projects PLUG folks are participating in?
my contributions to free software are negligible, being a line of code
here and there (bug-fixes), and hardly any full blown packages to speak
of. though i have one in the back burner.
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