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Europe's Largest Linux Event Draws Nigh
steman writes "On the 10th of July 2003 LinuxTag begins, the largest Linux event in Europe. It will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany. Four days will be packed with up to 20,000 visitors, over 120 exhibitors (including more than 30 Free Software orientated projects such as FFII, BSD, KDE and Debian), coding marathon and many conferences (including specialist business and government conferences). Best of all, in the spirit of the Free Software Movement, it will be largely free (entrance, and many conferences are free)."
Whats the deal? Seems like decent articles to me?
maybe Im missing something
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Europe's Largest Linux Event Draws Nigh
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As in Bill Nye, the science guy? If so, I'm SO there.
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It's good to see friendly cooperation with BSD in open source events like this.
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Hmm. Maybe your dict works differently than mine. Mine gives several definitions for orientate.
That said, "Free Software-oriented projects" is probably the best spelling.
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No matter how free the admission, I can't afford the transportation. You insensitive clod.
Plus, I don't want to leave the U.S.A. Who knows if I can make it back in.
P.S. 55DF4942184C9AE0 activation. You have your instructions.
Orientate is not a word? Tell that to dictionary.reference.com then. While you're at it, tell The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary and WordNet ® 1.6, all of which are quoted as saying that you're incorrect...
Shouldn't that be "draweth nigh"?
The Coding Marathon will be conducted in the Olympic spirit
Corrupt officials and steroid junkies welcome!
And a good occasion for gathering signatures against software patents in Europe.
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It's a word alright, but it's not synonymous with "oriented". An event can be "Linux-oriented", but "Linux-orientated" is bad usage.
What we have here is a thinking error Is the word "orientate" somehow illogical or something? I don't get how you can figure out a whether a word is a word just by thinking. The only thinking I'd imagine would be necessary would be to think to look in the dictionary. :)
Maybe it means that you farm out your software jobs to the Orient.
In my understanding, the spirit of the Free Software Foundation is mainly concerned with the freedom of software, not its price.
Unselfish actions pay back better
Press release here
LinuxTag '03 will have a special DVD for visitors, with the first DVD edition of Knoppix with 4GB of live linux.
Bullshit. Stallman acknowledges BSD as a Free operating system.
Perhaps he answered nearly every question with the same kind of response because he realised you really weren't getting it.
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Squaresoft is releasing FF II as opensource!
Wait, do they mean the American or the Japanese one?
Visit the RMLL, the World largest Free Software Event. From 9 to 12th July in Metz, France!
Too bad airfare isn't free too..... (Western Canada -> Germany).
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
with what? photoshop? gimp? MSPAint? please do tell.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
The second, a long variant (qv) of the first, seems likely to prevail in the common figurative use.
-- Fowler, Modern English Usage, 2e
(A standard reference on UK English)
Orientate is a backformation from "orientation." Some common words that have entered standard English as backformations are "burgle" from burglar, "televise" from television, and "enthuse" from enthusiasm.
FWIW, "oriented" (in "object-oriented" etc.) was unknown in British English 15 years ago. My impression is that it is still pretty much confined to "object-oriented" here, and when travelling about people will still "try to orientate" themselves.
For those visitors working on a tight budget, this pub in Karlsruhe has several different dishes (for vegetarians and carnivores) every day for 5 Euros, ask for the "Studi-Essen".
http://www.die-kippe.de/
I am not affiliated with these guys, I used to live in the town, still visit occasionally and am often stuck for somewhere to eat which is != pizza/chinese/kebab/burger.
Not confused enough? http://translate.google.com/translate?u=www.slashdot.jp&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ja&tl=en
Oh, that's what it means? Thanks for rescuing me from my ignorance, I'll be eternally grateful.
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
orient. 1. ... 2. ... 3. orientate (or or-) v.t &i., orient; ...
from the Oxford Dictionary....
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I hope Microsoft doesn't have their MS Cruise Missle 2003 aimed at the coordinates.
Assuming that you accept the FSF's gospel of What Is Free, you'll find that RMS already explicitly regards the BSD license as a free software license. Definitions here.
Whilst you are leafing through these tomes of knowledge, it might be a good idea for you to look up the following: "obvious" and "troll". "Orientate is not a word" is such an old troll that its got a beard and bus pass.
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Why don't they have a "quality design" marathon ? The winner would be the one that produces the most quality design, following the Q&A rules most closely.
it should be GNU/Linuxtag
Expect me for "tea."
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...Thanks to you, this will be the first time a restaurant will be physically slashdotted...
20,000 geeks all yelling for a beer and a sandwich.....
I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
informative. The RMLL are not only the largest free software event in Europe, but the largest free software event in the world!
Just check on Google. For UK sites, the frequency of "work-oriented" vs. "work-orientated" is about 2:1, for Australia, it's 4:1. For the entire world, it's about 12:1 (and most of that usage is in the UK and Australia). Sounds like this is some odd British usage.