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LinuxCon North America schedule released

The schedule for LinuxCon North America has been released. The conference will be held August 17-19 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Highlights include a conversation between Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman, keynotes from Clay Shirky, Allison Randal, Martin Mickos, Jim Whitehurst, and others, as well as a "20th anniversary of Linux" gala event: "a Roaring 20's themed special event open to all attendees on the first night of LinuxCon. Dinner, drinks, casino games, awards, prizes and more. Costumes & tuxedos encouraged!" More information can be found on the main web page.
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a Roaring 20's themed special event

Posted Jun 17, 2011 12:32 UTC (Fri) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

We all know what happened right after the "Roaring 20's", don't we?

a Roaring 20's themed special event

Posted Jun 17, 2011 16:11 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

Yes, the proprietary software market crashed hard and Redmond and Cupertino had the highest unemployment in the world. Due to lack of finances, or perhaps because they were tired of the big software houses spoon-feeding them crappy software, the masses turned to alternatives which were not only less costly, but also proved to be substantially better.

Forgive me for writing history...

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