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ACE2K Shows Folks There Are Doors Out Of Windows

Posted by timothy on from the should-be-required-of-anyone-who-buys-PCs dept.

dmsmith writes: "Scheduled for Oct. 20-22 in Melbourne, Australia, is the Alternative Computer Expo 2000 (ACE2K), the computer expo with no Windows. You can read a bit about it here at the Fairfax IT news site. Also you can go to their site www.ace2k.net." Rather than pushing zealotry on behalf of any particular operating system, these guys have a cool idea: provide a forum that proves there are different ways to do anything. Wish there was an American equivalent -- or is there? How about elsewhere?

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  1. I would go but... by thogard · · Score: 3

    Why would I go to a computer show where I can't find out the lattest wonderful products from M$?

    Now if they had invited Bill Gates to speak, now that would be worth seeing.

    There is also going to be the "Geek Night Out" on Oct 20th.

  2. This is a step in the right direction. by COBOL/MVS · · Score: 3

    Shouldn't this be how any non-Microsoft system should be touted--an alternative way to get things done? It seems that a lot of energy is spent here focusing on Microsoft's foibles rather than Linux/BSD/BeOS/'s strengths. Microsoft is constrained by the public and it's investors (and the government, blah blah blah). Linux (and I'm talking the kernel and the GNU set of tools, not any particular distribution) is not and that's why it can advance so much more quickly.

    Rather than tearing something down (which, by the way, gains you no credibility whatsoever), forums such as ACE2K should be brought up as a way to show everyone that anything is possible. If done right, people realize that there are other (sometimes better) ways of doing things. Isn't that what we're all after?
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