Toronto Linux User Group Online is invited to theMicrosoft Platform Technical Briefing Dinner (fwd)

[rickl-ZACYGPecefkm4kRHVhTciCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org]

All the more power to you Colin. I've travelled over a good part of the
states to major manufacturing facilites. What I've seen consistently are
MS desktops accessing Unix green/yellow screens and/or extracting data to
create new screens and hard copy. With a proper development environment
and qualified roll out staff MS is easily bumped out of the game. Once
this is accomplished they can focus on what they do best which is making
video games. Do you really want a toy company making your mission critical
software? Scary stuff...
RickT
http://www.TorontoNUI.ca

> "John McGregor" <mr.mcgregor-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> on Sunday, March 20, 2005 12:23
> AM wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 23:48 -0500, Adam Raymond wrote:
>> > ha ha Not at all John, but yes it is true, you helped me a lot. Are
>> > you going to the Microsoft thing? Is anyone going?
>>
>> I can't, though I would really like to. Speakers as fervent as he is
>> likely to be are always good for a few terrific straight lines.
>
> I plan to go, I have signed up, free food, and a chance to take my Debian
> based laptop out for a spin :-) . Also, a chance to ask why (except for
> some
> of their keyboards/mice) Microsoft makes such consistently crappy products
> :-) .
>
> Ok, so I will admit that my plans are not as gutsy as the guy who showed
> up
> at a SCO event that I attended in late 2003 with a RedHat based laptop :-)
> .
> Still, might I suggest that anyone with a non-Microsoft  based
> laptop/palmtop (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, PalmOS, etc.) who is going to be at
> this Microsoft event bring their device and show it :-) ....
>
> Colin McGregor
>
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