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| DATE | 2003-05-15 |
| FROM | Marco Scoffier
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] We got into the THE ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE as A Exhibtor
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That's great Adam,
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:35:38PM -0400, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> Looks like things are coming along nicely. If any effort is needed to
> pass flyers out, I'm free all day tomorrow. Also, looks like the
> presentations have been filled out. Although I don't have anything
> prepared (in terms of a formal speech), I could offer an adhoc rant
> that would center around the concept of Free Software being more than
> a "dollars and cents" thing. The talk would be limited to my own
> personal experiences that would range all the way from when I first
> discovered the limitations of shareware, realizing that I was being
> led in circles by Sun Microsystems when they decided to stop support
> for SSJS in iPlanet, and end up somewhere with an example of a major
> NYC-based hospital relying on an application that held their patient
> data hostage.
>
> Again, I don't have a presentation but I'd jump up and throw my $0.02
> in for the cause.
Do you think you could pick one of the applications or topics to wrap
your examples up with?
I think it is always better to get people on a topic. Let me tell you
about the Apache Web Server serving more sites than any other product,
and then instead of going off on all sorts of technical mumbo jumbo
about forking child processes, and request cycles. You touch a bit on
the technical stuff, maybe by mentioning a few huge sites who use it and
some specialised applications such as an ssl server, and you spend most
of you time giving examples about how free is better than proprietary.
The other way around tends not to bring a crowd, cause people generally
don't want to be lectured to.
--
Marco
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