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Spurned O'Reilly 'Foo' Camp Attendees Create 'Bar'

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the foo-vs-bar-gets-foobar'd dept.

theodp writes "CNET reports on this weekend's Bar Camp, an open-source alternative to O'Reilly Media's A-List Foo Camp, which CEO Tim O'Reilly explains employs a "Bozo filter" to exclude undesirable attendees.

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  1. Headline... by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe a catchier headline would've been:

    Foo 2 Bar Bozo

  2. Mr. T by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't get an invite to the latest camp? I pity the Foo...

  3. Re:Scott Adams should sue... by gandreas · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or maybe not, since when the Macintosh was released, files with their "Bozo bits" (one of a handful of flags a file could have) would be copy protected (and couldn't be copied in the Finder). It was so called because "only a bozo would rely on this for real copy protection" (since nothing prevented them from being turned off)