On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:39, Trevor Warren wrote:
Morning All,
If you might recollect sometime ago we all made it to Arnala for the FLOSS Lunacy trip. This time around i am looking at an overnite trip i would like to line
out the following:
Overnite Stayover "Just For Fun" and Learning Basic and Advanced Programming(CLI/GUI) Web Programming Fundamentals - LAMP(Mighty
apologies, ,i don't get his name but the guru handling Gujrati translation for Indlinux)
Basic and Advanced Administration topics Wireless/Embedded and other Geek Speak for those who
would like to venture into the unknown boldy(JTD...Can we have you on this one pls???)
I would love to - time permitting. Some of the projects we are implementing right now have half the cost and twice the performance using GNU/Linux (hint to win2k, wince & grenhills users). Infact many of the features are simply impossible with closed source tools. One multinational was on a road show in India pedalling their products. Imagine their shock when we demonstrated an identical but far simpler, secure and fool proof system using Debian and some embedded stuff. They had spent 3 YEARS v/s our 3 weeks. They had filed patents on some of the stuff and spent a fortune on lawyers (hint to guys trying to time limit usage and waste energy preventing their stuff from being copied) and we pointed out prior free software public knowledge. It was one of the most satisfying days of my life - forcing the ceo and r&d boss to acknowledge the absolute superiority of GNU/linux. Will they convert? I dont know yet.
And Lonavla sounds great, provided there is a good swimming pool ;-).