Yes, you were the only community presence left there for most of the week. But Eric Raymond, Larry Augustin, and I all took time to present there. I would have stayed longer except that I was leaving Valerie alone with a two-month-old baby to present at the show. I don't get paid for this either, only my transportation and lodging is taken care of.
And yes, the LUG guys worked hard and deserve better. I do know one LUG guy who took the entire week off from his job to do things like drive the speakers to and from the airport. Thanks, Hal!
Hopefully they can organize it differently next year.
Slashdot does fund itself through advertising. Thus, I doubt they generally promote shows that don't advertise. Nobody posted to technocrat, not that we get nearly as many readers. Better use could have been made of free promotion.
The one in San Jose is huge. All trade show booth space is booked, 50 companies are waiting for someone else to cancel. The attached Hilton hotel has all suites booked. Attendance was very high last time. The failure in KC is not a reflection on Linux, but due to problems with a first-time show, money running short, and too much work for only one guy.
Go to the show on Saturday, the exhibitors especially would really like to see you.
Eric Raymond, Larry Augustin, and I were all there on Tuesday. We wanted to help out another independent show, lest IDG and Ziff-Davis get a lock on Linux trade shows. We did this for The Bazaar too, which worked out much better.
Greg, the promoter of the KC show, is a nice guy and he really cares, but it sounds as if he ran out of money and resources to promote the show, and he tried to do too much on his own. The two local Linux User Groups helped out, but there was little they could do - it sounds as if they were brought in much too late. I spoke on Tuesday morning, to 13 people. Apparently, the talk wasn't publicized sufficiently. Larry, Eric, and I sat at a table in a Kansas City restaurant on Tuesday evening, a $20/ticket event open to the public, and were undisturbed. Few in the area knew we were there. At least it was nice to have the chance to talk with Larry and Eric.
Sigh. I was hoping this would get better on Wednesday. I guess it didn't. I left Tuesday night to get back to the baby and didn't see the rest of the show.
Darn. There's no point in chastizing Greg, the exhibitors have no doubt already parbroiled him. Kansas City deserves a good Linux show and I hope we can make a better one next year.
What was off was his reply, which was not informed by what I know from working inside the industry. The theatrical presentation requirement is a thin one. We got around this for Tin Toy, by arranging for a theater in Hollywood to show the short and send out invitations for Academy members to see it. I think the theater was owned by the producer's dad.
So, if you want to be considered, you pay a few thousand to a theater to show the movie when it would otherwise be closed. Then you put it on the Internet. Big deal.
No problem with your posting more than I do, but it's time you took personal responsibility for what you write. Right now, you're putting on a mask of my face and then giving the thin self-justification that it's not perfect and occassionally you admit the deception. From here, it seems far more cowardly than honestly labeling yourself as an AC.
The things you write generally seem rational but they aren't what I would write. Your posting on the Academy tonight was especially far off.
The Academy is even more political than the Olympic committee. Oscar awarding is frequently distorted by their political agendas. Try to win an Oscar with a film produced with a non-union crew or non-union performers. They don't really like animation, or digital effects that let you use fewer actors. And they are very definitely in the "tight fists on intellectual property" camp. Try to even use the image of an Oscar sometime. Their rules for that are incredibly picky and strict, and are enforced with frequent legal action. They've testified to congress complaining that people were allowed to record their work off the air with VCRs and then view it twice without paying a second time!
Remember what they did with Toy Story? They had to create a special award so that they could get away, in the public eye, with not giving it one of their regular awards.
Sorry, dynamic linking doesn't free you from any restrictions that would be there in the case of static linking. Two reasons: header code in your executable, and the fact that dynamic linking is being used as a device to circumvent the license and would be seen as such by any competent court.
User acceptance of audio formats is driven by one thing: publisher use of audio formats. Given that a plug-in is available on the net and easy to install, the user will download it the first time he has to play a file in the new format.
In this case, a lot of publishers don't want to pay the Frauenhoffer Institute royalties, and this new format is a way to get out of that. Nor do software developers want to pay license fees.
If we want to push it, the best way is to start writing applications for it, and to start producing audio programs in it ourselves. The Free Software community is an effective engine for driving early acceptance.
Even though slashdot has covered Ogg Vorbis before, it's still a great project. Most of us whine about bad patents. Somebody with the right background in math and signal processing went and did something about bad patents.
I have superhuman vision every time I pick up my binoculars. And when I use my telephone, I can hear for miles and miles and miles...:-)
Sure, if you measure the eye really carefully you can come up with better glasses. But I shiver at the thought of this being used for the so-called "laser eye surgery", which is referred to by its own practicioners as slash and burn. If you really looked into the way they are creating scars on the lens, etc., you'd not want that to happen to your eyes.
it works relatively well and is almost as innovative as MS Windows
Sound effect: loud raspberry. Go on to the middle of the post.
The question implied, since you established that LOSF exists, is why them rather than FSF or Software in the Public Interest? That's not interesting?:-)
Hm. Well, it's nice to see a PDA that's going to run Linux. I'll wait for Linux to be on their equipment rather than download their old OS development kit with that restrictive license.
The Linux Open Source Foundation seems to be real, then, but I'd certainly rather see money going to FSF or Software in the Public Interest.
Maybe these folks need a free software community advisory board to give them a sense of how to work with us.
TOG contacted me some time before the release of Motif. They said they were releasing un-named software and showed me the license. At that time, I asked them to make it entirely compliant with the OSD, and they said they could not do so yet. So, we agreed on FAQ language that explicitly stated the software was not Open Source.
I wasn't aware that they "redefined" Open Source and would have objected to that.
Frankly, I don't think Motif is all that relevant these days, given the progress on GNOME/GTK and KDE/Qt. Thus, given their expressed intention to make it Open Source eventually, I don't think there's much point in having a big to-do about it now.
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He's just out to defame me, I guess. None of it makes much sense to me.
I saw one for $250 today at a Berkeley real estate office. I'd suggest you check El Cerrito and some of the nicer parts of Richmond. Note also that prices will be taking a dip as there has been a dip in purchases. It seems that the option stock windfalls which were fueling purchases have mostly evaporated.
I walked by a real estate office in Berkeley today. One $250K, others around $350K. The $220s are in El Cerrito (7 miles from Berkeley) and the nicer parts of Richmond (stay away from the bad parts, I agree).
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And yes, the LUG guys worked hard and deserve better. I do know one LUG guy who took the entire week off from his job to do things like drive the speakers to and from the airport. Thanks, Hal!
Hopefully they can organize it differently next year.
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Eric Raymond, Larry Augustin, and I were all there on Tuesday. We wanted to help out another independent show, lest IDG and Ziff-Davis get a lock on Linux trade shows. We did this for The Bazaar too, which worked out much better.
Greg, the promoter of the KC show, is a nice guy and he really cares, but it sounds as if he ran out of money and resources to promote the show, and he tried to do too much on his own. The two local Linux User Groups helped out, but there was little they could do - it sounds as if they were brought in much too late. I spoke on Tuesday morning, to 13 people. Apparently, the talk wasn't publicized sufficiently. Larry, Eric, and I sat at a table in a Kansas City restaurant on Tuesday evening, a $20/ticket event open to the public, and were undisturbed. Few in the area knew we were there. At least it was nice to have the chance to talk with Larry and Eric.
Sigh. I was hoping this would get better on Wednesday. I guess it didn't. I left Tuesday night to get back to the baby and didn't see the rest of the show.
Darn. There's no point in chastizing Greg, the exhibitors have no doubt already parbroiled him. Kansas City deserves a good Linux show and I hope we can make a better one next year.
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Bruce
Even their DNS is down, now.
So, if you want to be considered, you pay a few thousand to a theater to show the movie when it would otherwise be closed. Then you put it on the Internet. Big deal.
Bruce
The things you write generally seem rational but they aren't what I would write. Your posting on the Academy tonight was especially far off.
Get your own name, already, cowboy.
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Remember what they did with Toy Story? They had to create a special award so that they could get away, in the public eye, with not giving it one of their regular awards.
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The above post is an impostor.
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In this case, a lot of publishers don't want to pay the Frauenhoffer Institute royalties, and this new format is a way to get out of that. Nor do software developers want to pay license fees.
If we want to push it, the best way is to start writing applications for it, and to start producing audio programs in it ourselves. The Free Software community is an effective engine for driving early acceptance.
Thanks
Bruce
And he says he wants to work on video, too.
Bruce
Sure, if you measure the eye really carefully you can come up with better glasses. But I shiver at the thought of this being used for the so-called "laser eye surgery", which is referred to by its own practicioners as slash and burn. If you really looked into the way they are creating scars on the lens, etc., you'd not want that to happen to your eyes.
Bruce
Sound effect: loud raspberry. Go on to the middle of the post.
The question implied, since you established that LOSF exists, is why them rather than FSF or Software in the Public Interest? That's not interesting? :-)
Raspberry for the end of the post, too.
Bruce
The Linux Open Source Foundation seems to be real, then, but I'd certainly rather see money going to FSF or Software in the Public Interest.
Maybe these folks need a free software community advisory board to give them a sense of how to work with us.
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I wasn't aware that they "redefined" Open Source and would have objected to that.
Frankly, I don't think Motif is all that relevant these days, given the progress on GNOME/GTK and KDE/Qt. Thus, given their expressed intention to make it Open Source eventually, I don't think there's much point in having a big to-do about it now.
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Bruce
He's just out to defame me, I guess. None of it makes much sense to me.
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