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LWCE Wrapup

Posted by michael on from the bean-counting dept.

Okay, let's close out the Linuxworld Expo news as best we can. CNet has an article on the march on City Hall (there's also an AP article) to promote open source in government (some people even want to get Linux certified). CNN loves Linux. Bruce Perens, as we mentioned last night, is bailing out of Hewlett-Packard. And Newsforge has several stories from the Linuxworld floor: 1, 2, 3, 4. And finally, CmdrTaco and Chris Dibona (Gamara here on Slashdot) were on TechTV yesterday (and repeats today). Viewer discretion advised.

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  1. Re:What were they showing at the Microsoft Booth? by Cirrocco · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They were showing (primarily) Services for Unix 3.01. Not a big deal, all legitimate. The booth was relatively small (maybe 15-20 feet across and only 10 feet deep) The booth was busy and nobody egged the presenters or forcibly tattooed Tux on their foreheads, as much as we all may have enjoyed that.

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  2. Thank you Bruce by InodoroPereyra · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I thought I should say this loud. Bruce Perens is becoming one of the public persons I respect the most. He is resigning from a comfortable position at HP in order to be able to be more active in politics, and he wants to be politically active in order to defend the public interest, and ideals like freedom.

    Most people have unfortunately ethics a posteriori. They (we) do whatever benefits them (us), and then find an ethical justification for whatever we do or we are. He is going the other around.

    Bruce, let me just say thank you. People like you make this world a little nicer :-)