On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Rubin Bennett wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 20:23 -0500, Paul Flint wrote: > > Dear Forest, > > > > 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. Ah, intrepid penguins joy-riding through valley and gore to hear the words of hope on high and spread the love of FOSS throughout the land!
> > > 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. My ignorance is prob showing, though visiting PCC site in recent past I'm pulling this off the top of my head, but isn't their 'coupler' thingy all windows based? either .Net/aspx or client-server stuff. If so, then I presume the IP is going to be copy-left, or creative-commons or LGPL related to what? Maybe API's that access their servers. Anyhow, until i stand corrected, it's nice to know that some parts of FOSS are getting through. > 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. Richard Tarrant, founder of IDX was there? Or Richie? And curiously am wondering what bonafides or true insights young son has regarding the state of IT and tech? > And perhaps even go beyond that and just become the norm (but now I'm pipe > dreaming). cat "FOSS desktops for all" | dream time to hit the rack now.... to much snow to blow on the morrow. Rion > > Rubin
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