Re: [Sheflug] Why does Linux work?

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 26 Feb 2014 15:09:40 Jan White wrote:
> When somebody next asks you how free software can possibly work
> better than expensive software show them this:
> RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Great lecture.  Reminds me in some ways of the atmosphere at 
www.fosdem.org.  I walked in through the door in 1995 at the 
Universite Libre Bruxelles and three of the heftiest looking male 
academics I've ever seen descended on me.  One of then said "Vee haf 
tu haf oopern soource !".  Can't argue with that kind of thing :)  
They took me upstairs and gave me some coffee.  Told me they wanted to 
have an open source event. I said I was in touch with Richard Stallman 
who could pull a crowd.  I would help them out.  That was how Osdem 
started and which eventually became Fosdem.  We all thought we were 
raving nutters or eccentric at best.  We thought we might get a few 
old blokes on crutches interested.  Present figures for Fosdem are 
about 5000 or 10 000 people in one weekend. 

Obviously this is also imaginary - http://youtu.be/o774LMtfeJY  
<shakes head> How anyone could think that a real project I've no idea.  
As Ted Tso said to us in his lecture at SHU back in 2001.. It's been a 
great ten years......


-- 
Richard

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