On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 20:23 -0500, Paul Flint wrote: > Dear Forest, > > I take it that you are among the lucky few who work at Logic Supply. > "Congratulations" give my best to both Lisa and Roland Groeneveld. Sadly > I was not able to introduce myself at the Legislative bitch session this > evening. I tried to park on State Street in Mont-peculiar, and spent 15 > minutes getting unstuck from the snow. Hee... I think I burned about 10k miles off my tires doing same after that meeting (friggin' plows... piled the snow about 1/2 way up my damn door!). I'm sure there were passers-by looking at me with that smug 'another asshole in a beemer' expression that I so fully deserved this evening. Took the gas sipper instead of the SUV but burned enough extra spinning my way through the snow to offset the difference exponentially. Sheesh. > > Let me say that I certainly hope that they are not going to the State for > any aid. I believe that they have not been all that helpful to me in my > search for Certification and Accreditation work recently. > There was no talk of handouts by any of the panelists. In fact I was heartened that of the 5 panelists, 3 of them mentioned Open Source software in the course of the discussion in a very positive light. Lisa from Logic Supply and John from PCC mentioned it in reference to IP and software patents, and how Open Source Licenses neatly circumvent the issue. Paul from Chroma Technology also mentioned FOSS in a positive way during the course of the discussion. On a sociopolitical level, both John and Paul seem to largely 'get it' at least from my seat.
Rich Tarrant was, well Rich Tarrant. Forgive me for rolling my eyes when a multi-gazillionaire talks about not being able to afford, well, anything. I hope that with a continued edumacation of the powers that be, FOSS will continue it's slow trajectory out of the server room and into the collective consciousness. And perhaps even go beyond that and just become the norm (but now I'm pipe dreaming). Rubin -- Rubin Bennett rbTechnologies, LLC 80 Carleton Boulevard East Montpelier, VT 05651 (802)223-4448 http://thatitguy.com "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
