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Review Of LinuxWorld 2004

Posted by timothy on from the Y2***-is-the-year-of-desktop-linux dept.

jamienk writes "I went to the LinuxWorld convention at the Javits Center in NYC again this year. This is where the post-post-industrial corporate complex flexes for us consumers and infrastructure staff to see. And the smell of Corps was thick in the air. So was the nerdy, curious, driven, hacker odor. Guess which vibe won?"

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  1. "scalability" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    seems to include "middleware" "scalability" and other old, nebulous buzzwords.

    When did scalability become a buzzword?

    The author of this comes off as an elitist jackass.

  2. Re:Corps? by FyRE666 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Am I the only one who read that as corpses at first? :-)
    Yeah, I thought it was a reference to the BSD booth too...

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