Dear Rubin,
Thanks for the report!
Regards,
Flitn
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Rubin Bennett wrote:
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:45:43 -0500
From: Rubin Bennett <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Truth to power - re: Logic Supply
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
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Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
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