Computers For Schools (LinuxWorld)

[Colin McGregor]

"phil" <phillip-l+pbsqP8NtUm29vl6s1fFg at public.gmane.org> on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:16 AM


> I came away from the LinuxWorld Expo yesterday with the feeling I was
> in the wrong place.  I'm guessing there were interesting things to see
> if your bias was toward hardware and administration, but for a software
> development specialist it seemed like a dumbed-down re-hash of last
> year's products and displays.  Oh, well.

Mixed bag at the show, I was pleased to see a few corners like the Skype
promotion, and the Novell talk about how they are pushing the desktop...

> What really did bug me was my brief conversation at the "Computers For
> Schools - Ontario" booth.  With my interest in the use of Open Source
> software within the non-profit sector, I asked the woman what kind of
> acceptance they were seeing for Linux among their clients.  To which
> she replied, "Linux...that's a program, right?"  I guess I looked as
> stunned as I felt as I waved my hand around, indicating the other
> booths on the show floor.  She added, "Oh, we don't care about that.
> We're just here to get donations."

Well, I had some flyers from Innovation Toronto (parent organization to
G.T.C.C. and reSource) asking for the donation of used technology at the
T.L.U.G. booth. Innovation Toronto was helping the Linux community and in
turn asking for a bit of help in return. Also worth noting that Innovation
Toronto uses open source internally (a mix of FreeBSD and Linux), though
granted I am to blame for that :-) .

> (Money lenders.  Temple.  Eckkk.)
>
> ........................
> Phillip Mills
> Multi-platform software development
> (416) 224-0714

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