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May 29, 2007 | Comments: (0)
OSBC 2007 in pictures
Unfortunately I can't post all of the pictures from this past OSBC (I have hundreds), but here's a few that I think sum it up nicely:
No one told Dirk Hohndel that OSBC is "pass/fail." He seems to be trying to cheat on someone else's paper.... :-)
We had a great crowd this year. In this picture you can see Lee Thompson (E*Trade), Mike Vertal (Rivet Logic), Terry Barbounis and Russ Danner (Christian Science Monitor), Steve Parker (Ricoh), Kevin Comolli (Accel), John Powell (Alfresco), Brian Proffitt (Linux Today), John Roberts (SugarCRM), Dan Cahoon (H&R Block), Christof Wittig (Db4o), and a range of others....
We had the open source evangelism from Matthew Szulik...
...and open source realism (that sounded a lot like evangelism) from Marc West (CIO, H&R Block):
"Please reveal to me the secrets behind the Microsoft patent FUD!" (Larry Augustin, open source luminary)
"Now, wait. Let me get this straight. The guy up there said that we could sell Linux and other open source software, rather than Microsoft's patent FUD...I've got to call Ron Hovesepian about this!" (Bruce Lowry, PR Director, Novell)
"I'm not buying any of this patent FUD. Give me something that works or I'm calling my cousin, Vinnie." (Dan Cahoon, H&R Block)
Eben is selling, but Ken Jacobs (Oracle) doesn't look like he's buying. :-)
"Can you guys wrassle me an open source license?" (Unknown Cowboy talking with Matt Bennett and Bill Mason of EnterpriseDB)
"I can't wait to downgrade my Bank of America stock. Tim doesn't know what he's yapping about." (Jason Maynard, Analyst, Credit Suisse)
"I can't wait until after this session so that I can pummel Jason." (Tim Golden, SVP Linux Engineering, Bank of America)
"Not sure what Tim and Jason are getting so excited about. This is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz." (Stephen Shankland, CNET)
"Why do I have to listen to Matt Asay's propaganda parade? I'm not getting paid enough...." (Mike Olson, Oracle)
"Who knew that open source could be so funny?" (Monica Kumar, Oracle, and r0ml Lefkowitz, some insurance scam)
"Yes, it's true. All Finns do this. They frolic naked in saunas! And drink milk, too!!!" (Stephe Walli)
John Roberts (SugarCRM) and Mike Evans (Red Hat) sang our closing song.
And Mark de Visser (Zend) and others discussed the relative stature of their open source offerings....
While Larry begged the congregation to come unto open source and be saved.
Amen!
Posted by Matt Asay on May 29, 2007 08:58 AM
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The homeless cowboy probably wandered in off the street, overheard the presentations, and hoped he could score some of that crack that everyone was smoking.
Posted by: Close That Source at May 29, 2007 05:07 PMShouldn't there be some policy on deleting troll posts, a la Groklaw.net?
Your flagging of "John Blogg"-from-Redmond comments had been helpful and I spread the word. There is a lot of that funny business going on nowadays.
http://slated.org/the_munchkins_are_back
Posted by: Roy Schestowitz at May 30, 2007 02:44 AMThe unknown cowboy is Rob Savoye, and that's an OLPC prototype in his hand! And thanks for including the /fine/ picture of Ignacio and I in the collection.
Posted by: Stephen Walli at May 30, 2007 07:46 AMSeriously if you can't stand a little contrarian commentary without seeing an imaginary conspiracy threat and censoring it then OSS has truly gone into "cult-like" status. This blog is particularly breathless in its predictions of the demise of software licensing due to open source. It's asking for some counterpoint.
For example, all this open source chatter ignores what's going on in the true "anti-open source" movement, which is SaaS. Not only is SaaS closed source*, but they don't even give you a product! The market is very strongly trending in that direction for business applications, in contrast to the strength of OSS in infrastructure software.
*Please don't say "open source SaaS" because that's really just a data center provider
Posted by: Close That Source at May 30, 2007 07:54 AM
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