No, we did not have picket signs or a lot of press, but I think it helped in the following ways:
1. The judge and council seemed quite surprised at the number of people in the gallery and interested in this case. Because such a majority of the onlookers were wearing Linux shirts, it gave creedence to the defense's arguement that the DCCS is more important to Linux users than to piraters. (The Linux users felt it was important enough to actually show up en masse and pay attention to even a preliminary hearing.)
2. Whoever was resourceful enough to spend the time passing out the source code on paper and floppies (yes, he sat and copied dozens of his own floppies), rattled the plaintiff enough that they asked to admit this into the evidence for the case. This action will obviously have *some* affect on the outcome of the case. Had he not done this, and had we not been there to receive the code and stand in the hallways, that evidence would not be part of the trial. Do I think this will help us? Yes! It will support the argument of the futility of attempting to regulate the net (because the Court will see, firsthand, how data can spread like wildfire!)
Yeah, that's it! VA used their cookies to secretly inform everyone of an impending IPO. Good detective work their Gumshoe! Were the rest of you paying attention? You should all go View Source on transmeta.com now to get more great secret info.
Go back to your beer, sweety. No more drinking and posting to Slashdot for you!
Remember the old Wonder Woman episode where the bad guy is just a brain in a fish tank and it talks through some kind of speech synthesizer which is electronically connected to the cerbral cortex? Ack, this is like all the weir-scary-cheesy sci-fi movies come true! I mean this is cool for quadraplegics, but I couldn't get the whole Vincent Price Mad-Scientist Lab image out of my head when I read this. The next thing we know, they'll be swapping someone's brain with that of their German Sheppard.
Well Fry's carries Redhat. Besides, the more people see Linux on the shelves, the more it will be mainstream. Also, keep in mind that it comes with an O'Reilly book which adds a lot of credibility.
This isn't really being marketed to the average American family. I think it's being marketed much more towards geeks.
Women have no interesting in coding for the pure joy of it? WHEN MONKEYS FLY OUT OF MY BUTT! I'm a chick! I code in Java, perl, php, sql, and a bunch of other stuff! Once I start a project, getting me away from the screen is impossible. And I'm not the only one... I know many women who code this way and love it. My office-mate, Flygirl, can code circles around any guy in the office (and we work at VA).
So the site is obviously done by an editor... code like this: www. LinuxOne.net
Give me a break!
The company is located 3 miles from my house... I'll swing by tonight and see if it's a Mailboxes, etc. address. I can tell you that it's right on the rail road tracks... prime real estate!
Look kids, I love animals. I have a house full of rescue animals. I also took the time to wander over there several times and talk to the trainer. This woman is simply passionate about those animals. They have a 1000 gallon swimming pool and a concrete house in her backyard. They seem to have better lodgings than many of my friends. The animals were just fine. They got regular breaks and tons of fish.
I talked to quite a number of people at the show who were worried about the penguins and not a single on had taken the time to find out for themselves how the penguins were. Good Grief!
Um, so there were two guys in penguin suits floating around the show. One of them was a beat-up rental suit that Seagate had someone wearing. The other was a very droopy lookin' tux that Penguin Computing had someone wearing -it looked depressed. Both the guys in penguin suits were pretty pathetic.
I haven't really seen any attempts to tie Linux in as a specific VA brand. I don't think VA is even trying to accomplish such a thing. It sounds like the CNBC slip-up was just that... a slip-up by an uninformed journalist. Hell, Fortune actually named Redhat as a VA competitor! Let's just not trust the press to get things straight.
On the other-hand, I've actually seen trepidation about tux who seems to be in danger of becoming permanently branded as something belonging Penguin Computing. That does worry me because Tux is does not belong to anyone company. He belongs to the whole O.S. Secondly, it wasn't that bright of Penguin because they are not going to have a very easy time trademarking their logo.
Now we have a lot more immature worthless posts. I hate to post something such as this, it seems rather worthless itself. Just can't help noticing... very unfortunate and saddening. Yeah, this last one being one of them! What does this message have to do with the RedHat redesign?
The second website I ever did I coded by hand. It beats the living snot out of all these "professionally done" sites done with Fusion and thousands of tables and graphics.
Oh Please! I'm a professional and I have always handcoded my sites and they still look great! My biggest gripe is that this Redhat site looks like a Fusion Template!
It really is a nice effort if you are going for that MS Frontpage Template look! They've gone from having a so-so site to one that's totally unimaginative! It's BORING! And it looks like they spent $45 to use a FrontPage or Net Objects Fusion Template.
I look at this site and it doesn't make me think, "Oh gee, this is a cool, dynamic, interesting, cutting edge company." It makes me think, "They obviously have NO web budget. They're either run by idiots or out of someone's garage."
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We hardly had thousands showing up... but at least a few dozen! ;)
Yes, I think it did help!
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No, we did not have picket signs or a lot of press, but I think it helped in the following ways:
1. The judge and council seemed quite surprised at the number of people in the gallery and interested in this case. Because such a majority of the onlookers were wearing Linux shirts, it gave creedence to the defense's arguement that the DCCS is more important to Linux users than to piraters. (The Linux users felt it was important enough to actually show up en masse and pay attention to even a preliminary hearing.)
2. Whoever was resourceful enough to spend the time passing out the source code on paper and floppies (yes, he sat and copied dozens of his own floppies), rattled the plaintiff enough that they asked to admit this into the evidence for the case. This action will obviously have *some* affect on the outcome of the case. Had he not done this, and had we not been there to receive the code and stand in the hallways, that evidence would not be part of the trial. Do I think this will help us? Yes! It will support the argument of the futility of attempting to regulate the net (because the Court will see, firsthand, how data can spread like wildfire!)
Just my two cents!
Yeah, that's it! VA used their cookies to secretly inform everyone of an impending IPO. Good detective work their Gumshoe! Were the rest of you paying attention? You should all go View Source on transmeta.com now to get more great secret info.
Go back to your beer, sweety. No more drinking and posting to Slashdot for you!
Remember the old Wonder Woman episode where the bad guy is just a brain in a fish tank and it talks through some kind of speech synthesizer which is electronically connected to the cerbral cortex? Ack, this is like all the weir-scary-cheesy sci-fi movies come true! I mean this is cool for quadraplegics, but I couldn't get the whole Vincent Price Mad-Scientist Lab image out of my head when I read this. The next thing we know, they'll be swapping someone's brain with that of their German Sheppard.
Well Fry's carries Redhat. Besides, the more people see Linux on the shelves, the more it will be mainstream. Also, keep in mind that it comes with an O'Reilly book which adds a lot of credibility.
This isn't really being marketed to the average American family. I think it's being marketed much more towards geeks.
Women have no interesting in coding for the pure joy of it? WHEN MONKEYS FLY OUT OF MY BUTT! I'm a chick! I code in Java, perl, php, sql, and a bunch of other stuff! Once I start a project, getting me away from the screen is impossible. And I'm not the only one... I know many women who code this way and love it. My office-mate, Flygirl, can code circles around any guy in the office (and we work at VA).
So the site is obviously done by an editor... code like this:
www.
LinuxOne.net
Give me a break!
The company is located 3 miles from my house... I'll swing by tonight and see if it's a Mailboxes, etc. address. I can tell you that it's right on the rail road tracks... prime real estate!
Yeah but it makes the legitamate linux companies look bad.
Look kids, I love animals. I have a house full of rescue animals. I also took the time to wander over there several times and talk to the trainer. This woman is simply passionate about those animals. They have a 1000 gallon swimming pool and a concrete house in her backyard. They seem to have better lodgings than many of my friends. The animals were just fine. They got regular breaks and tons of fish.
I talked to quite a number of people at the show who were worried about the penguins and not a single on had taken the time to find out for themselves how the penguins were. Good Grief!
Um, so there were two guys in penguin suits floating around the show. One of them was a beat-up rental suit that Seagate had someone wearing. The other was a very droopy lookin' tux that Penguin Computing had someone wearing -it looked depressed. Both the guys in penguin suits were pretty pathetic.
Can you drink and not be a geek?
I'm guessing that the "uniform" of which you speak would be a software t-shirt and jeans? I mean we are geeks! Isn't that standard issue?
I haven't really seen any attempts to tie Linux in as a specific VA brand. I don't think VA is even trying to accomplish such a thing. It sounds like the CNBC slip-up was just that... a slip-up by an uninformed journalist. Hell, Fortune actually named Redhat as a VA competitor! Let's just not trust the press to get things straight.
On the other-hand, I've actually seen trepidation about tux who seems to be in danger of becoming permanently branded as something belonging Penguin Computing. That does worry me because Tux is does not belong to anyone company. He belongs to the whole O.S. Secondly, it wasn't that bright of Penguin because they are not going to have a very easy time trademarking their logo.
Paranoid delusions? I saw one just hours ago! ;)
Now we have a lot more immature worthless posts. I hate to post something such as this, it seems rather worthless itself. Just can't help noticing... very unfortunate and saddening. Yeah, this last one being one of them! What does this message have to do with the RedHat redesign?
The second website I ever did I coded by hand. It beats the living snot out of all these "professionally done" sites done with Fusion and thousands of tables and graphics.
Oh Please! I'm a professional and I have always handcoded my sites and they still look great! My biggest gripe is that this Redhat site looks like a Fusion Template!
I agree that the site sucks shit through a straw but to call it gay insults homosexuals! Let's watch the lame bigotted remarks, ok?
Here Here!
It really is a nice effort if you are going for that MS Frontpage Template look! They've gone from having a so-so site to one that's totally unimaginative! It's BORING! And it looks like they spent $45 to use a FrontPage or Net Objects Fusion Template.
I look at this site and it doesn't make me think, "Oh gee, this is a cool, dynamic, interesting, cutting edge company." It makes me think, "They obviously have NO web budget. They're either run by idiots or out of someone's garage."
Just my humble opinion. *shrug*